The executive director of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) has criticised the recent four-day ‘Big Bang’ science and engineering fair in London for its weak…
The latest novel by award-winning writer Tracy Chevalier is set in a Quaker settlement in Ohio in the mid-1850s. Tracy Chevalier grew up attending Quaker summer camps and…
Justin Welby, the new archbishop of Canterbury, made several quotes from Quaker faith & practice in his address to the recent ‘Faith in Conflict’ conference at Coventry.
Millions of Britons are using consumer power to boycott companies seen to be avoiding their fair share of UK tax, new research reveals. A ComRes survey about public…
The Barrow Cadbury Trust has announced that Helen Cadbury is to become its next chair. Helen, the Trust’s seventh chair since 1920, takes over from Ruth Cadbury, who has…
Britain Yearly Meeting have made an appeal for Friends to notify them if they wish to participate in the Groups Fair, or hold a special interest group, this year at Yearly…
A campaign to draw attention to the nuclear bombs that are researched and built at Aldermaston has just been launched. A mass demonstration is planned for Easter Monday, 1…
Quakers from both Kenya and Britain helped to ensure that the Kenyan election, held on Monday 4 March, had a reduced level of violence. Post-election violence in Kenya in…
A decarbonisation target for the UK power sector is increasingly becoming the focus of a campaign by groups concerned about climate change. Thousands of supporters, including…
2012 was one of the most successful years ever for the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) stamp club. A highlight was the accumulation of mint and used Chinese stamps,…
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