Menu
Central England Quakers

Central England Quakers

The Religious Society of Friends in Central England

Menu
Facebook Email

Primary Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Quakers
    • Our Work
    • Quaker Terms
    • Quaker History
    • Work for Us
  • Quaker Meetings
    • Find a Quaker Meeting
    • Young Adult Friends
    • Area Business Meeting
    • Room Bookings
  • Children & Young People
  • News
    • Events
    • Calendar
    • Email Newsfeed
    • Magazine
  • Donate
  • Contact
Search

Secondary Menu

Skip to content

Category: Heritage & History

wild daffodil flowers in bloom

A Quaker take on Easter

Posted on03/04/202602/04/2026AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesCelebrating the Quaker Way, Heritage & History, Newsletter

Film Review: ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

Posted on19/03/202619/03/2026AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesEcumenical & Interfaith, Heritage & History, Newsletter, Truth & Integrity

Margaret Fell: Women’s Speaking Justified

Posted on05/03/202605/03/2026AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesCelebrating the Quaker Way, FWCC, Heritage & History, Newsletter

Zealous: A Darker Side of the Early Quakers

Posted on18/02/202618/02/2026AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesHeritage & History, Newsletter, Personal Reflection, Publications

Blue Plaque commemorating Elizabeth Cadbury

Posted on07/11/202519/11/2025AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesBournville, Equality, Heritage & History

Request for Volunteers: Heritage Open Days

Posted on13/08/202513/08/2025AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesBournville, Children & Young People, Heritage & History, Outreach, Request for helpers

Podcast on Quaker History

Posted on15/01/202515/01/2025AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesFind out more, Heritage & History

Look out for Roundabout Summer 2024

Posted on11/09/202411/09/2024AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesHeritage & History, Newsletter

Historic Quaker journals available for exhibitions

Posted on26/06/202427/06/2024AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesHeritage & History, Offer to Local Meetings, Stourbridge

An opportunity to try your hand at Quaker research

Posted on19/02/202421/02/2024AuthorCentral England Quakers

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 …

CategoriesEquality, Heritage & History, Responding to Racism, Truth & Integrity

Post navigation

← Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsfeed

Get a weekly email featuring news & events

Subscribe

For Quakers

  • Submit News & Events
  • Area Business Meeting Minutes
  • CEQ Structures
  • Resources for Local Meetings
  • Login

Policies

Eldership and Pastoral Care
Trustees Annual Reports and Accounts
Property Guidance
Finance Guidance
Privacy & Data Protection
Safeguarding
Employment: Information & Documents

Copyright © 2026 Central England Quakers. All Rights Reserved.
Gridalicious by Catch Themes
Scroll Up
  • Home
  • About Quakers
    • Our Work
    • Quaker Terms
    • Quaker History
    • Work for Us
  • Quaker Meetings
    • Find a Quaker Meeting
    • Young Adult Friends
    • Area Business Meeting
    • Room Bookings
  • Children & Young People
  • News
    • Events
    • Calendar
    • Email Newsfeed
    • Magazine
  • Donate
  • Contact