Bournville Friends are opening again for the Heritage Day on Saturday 10th September, 10:00 – 4:00. We’re always a popular venue for visitors and we’d love as many local Friends as possible to join us as volunteers. If we have lots Read More …
Leslie Denis (an American Quaker, based in France) shares her new book about two US Quaker suffragists who came to Birmingham in the 1910s: I am happy to announce the publication of my new book, Susanna and Alice: Quaker Rebels, Read More …
The history of Lloyd’s bank, started by the Quaker Lloyd family was recently featured in the Express & Star (the Black Country newspaper). In the 1760s Sampson Lloyd II and John Taylor set up the bank in Birmingham, and Sampson Read More …
Anne Giles of Bournville Quakers, and Roderick Keefe of CEQ Outreach Committee are seeking some extra helpers for Heritage Open Day (HOD) on 11th September 2021: Bournville Quaker Meeting House has opened for the September Heritage Day very successfully for Read More …
Quaker Antony Barlow shares his new book which takes a personal look at the Friends Ambulance Unit, which treated wounded civilians and soldiers on both sides, during the Second World War: An Exacting Mistress – The Friends Ambulance Unit in Read More …
Eleanor Nesbitt recently published an article in Coventry Society News: ‘The Coventry Quakers’. The article covers a brief history of the Religious Society of Friends in Coventry, from George Fox’s visits to the city in the 17th century through to Read More …
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 …
Occupational Centres and land schemes, ‘..the great need of the moment’ One of the great curses of unemployment is the feeling of isolation which grows upon the victim. He feels that no one cares about him, and for the want Read More …
This is the fourth 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. ‘A much esteemed Friend’ Main 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 …
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