We hope that you have been enjoying a happy and peaceful Easter. While our Communications and Outreach Administrator is on an Easter break, we share this blog from 2018, in which Alistair Fuller at Quaker Life explains how his understanding Read More …
Rhiannon Grant reviews this recent film, a biography of a woman who received a spiritual leading to found a new community – the Shakers. And Tim Gee reflects on the similarities and differences between Shakers and Quakers, and what he Read More …
As part of Friends World News, Ruby Cumming of Friends World Committee for Consultation reflects on Quaker co-founder Margaret Fell: In the World Office, as International Women’s Day approaches (8 March), we’ve been reflecting on women’s ministry and its deep Read More …
Stourbridge Quakers Lynn Morris and Henry Beakbane review a new book ‘Zealous: A Darker Side of the Early Quakers’ by Erica Canela, published Sept 2025 by Pen and Sword Books. According to the frontispiece, ‘The early Quakers were a group Read More …
A blue plaque has been unveiled for Elizabeth Cadbury at Bournville Junior School. Elizabeth was part of the Quaker Cadbury family, and campaigned for the rights of women and children in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A full Read More …
Bournville Friends are opening the doors yet again for Heritage Day for the 12th year running, and are appealing for volunteers to help. And apart from helping us, there’s an opportunity for volunteers to visit some of the other buildings opening Read More …
Just before Christmas, the History Extra Podcast had an episode about Quaker history with Ben Pink Dandelion as the expert. It’s available via all the usual apps for podcasts, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify to listen to for free: it’s Read More …
Although it feels like autumn has arrived, the Summer 2024 edition of Roundabout Central England has just been published – look out for physical copies available at your local meeting soon. These are great for outreach purposes, Friends who don’t Read More …
Stourbridge Meeting has copies of the original editions of George Fox’s Journal and Epistles, the Collected Works of William Penn, and Besse’s Sufferings of the People called Quakers, with a few other early Quaker books. If any other Meeting in Central Read More …
Update: Val Jenner explains more about this exciting project and how you can get involved: Is there any point in looking backwards? In looking at our history? In interrogating the accepted Quaker narratives and founding stories? There will always be Read More …