David Blake, head of library and archives of Friends House Library, described 15 May as a ‘day to remember’ when he introduced an event in the afternoon to launch two books on…
Quakers were among an eight-strong group of protesters who blocked a main entrance into the Atomics Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Burghfield, Berkshire, on Monday 19 May. …
Birmingham City Council will be erecting a blue plaque to the memory of John Henry Barlow on 17 June. John is being commemorated for his contribution to peace, his work with…
The distinguished Quaker poet Gerard Benson has died at the age of 83. Gerard was well-known as a driving force behind the popular ‘Poems on the Underground’ scheme, which was…
Newtown School in Waterford, one of Ireland’s oldest Quaker schools, has become the latest minority faith school in the country to enter the Free Education scheme. The…
Friends in Russia have called for restraint by all parties in Ukraine and abstention from violence in any form in order to avoid bloodshed. In a Monthly Meeting minute,…
The Quaker Tapestry held a 400th birthday party for Margaret Fell on 30 April and also celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Tapestry in Kendal. The event, which was…
This year the twentieth anniversary of Litchfield Local Meeting coincides with International Conscientious Objectors Day. Local Friends are recognising both events with activities…
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