On the Quakers in Britain website, for Black History Month, Esta Nyeko-Lacek (Reparations Coordinator at QiB) considers the story of Sam Sharpe, leader of a rebellion against enslavement, and what Quakers can learn from it. Sam Sharpe was born into Read More …
Bournville Friends have opened the Meeting House on Heritage Open Day very successfully for the last 13 years. It’s a fun day, giving us a chance to talk to interesting people and sometimes meet old friends. We don’t make refreshments but there Read More …
Susan Seymour (a member of the Britain Yearly Meeting Reparation Working Group) reviews the film Becoming Benjamin Lay, as well as other recent work on this radical prophet who was disowned but is now being reclaimed. If you have visited Read More …
Stuart Masters shares some of his experience of how Quakers today are shaped by the past – and might still turn things upside down. In the recent Swarthmore lecture, I explored how the complex mix of characteristics visible in the Read More …
Tangled Roots: Navigating the Complex Legacy of Early Quakers by Stuart Masters. The annual Swarthmore Lecture has two key purposes: to interpret to Quakers their message and mission and to make the wider public aware of the spirit, the aims, Read More …
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 …