13/06/2018 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – A talk on Pacifists Making Guns: Samuel Galton and Birmingham’s Industrial Revolution held at the University of Birmingham, with Priya Satia, professor of British History at Stanford University. This is not a Quaker event, but perhaps it might be of interest to Quakers. "The biggest gun-making firm in 18th century Britain was owned by a […]
The latest in our series of guest posts from the Birmingham & Warwickshire Quaker archive project – this post looks at Quakers historic relationship to the slave trade. Read More …
Pacifists making guns: the Galtons of Birmingham and Britain’s industrial revolution. If you didn’t get a chance to attend this lecture from Professor Priya Satia (Stanford) delivered at the University of Birmingham, the university has posted the full video to Read More …
This is the second in our series of guest posts from the Birmingham and Warwickshire Quakers archive project at the Library of Birmingham. Now that the project is complete, you can explore the archive catalogue online. Faith and disunity: Samuel Read More …
The archives of Central England Quakers are held by Birmingham Archives and Collections at the Library of Birmingham, and project archivist Eleanor Woodward has been busy cataloguing the many items, to allow them to be searched: online and in hard Read More …
George Fox (1624-1691) was the founder of Quakerism and was born within the geographical area of Central England: in a small village called Fenny Drayton. Hartshill is the nearest local Quaker meeting. The 1624 Country website has information on George Read More …
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