Quaker Founder George Fox will be 400 next year! The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) in partnership with BYM Children and Young People’s committee has launched a programme as part of the celebration of George Fox’s 400th anniversary in 2024. We Read More …
17th and 20th Century Quakers are being publicly commemorated though historic plaque schemes. On Thursday 22nd June a number of Hartshill Quakers joined other Friends from Leicestershire at Fenny Drayton Church for the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the significance Read More …
Quaker founder George Fox, was born in the Leicestershire village of Fenny Drayton, near to Hartshill Local Meeting and part of our Area Meeting, in 1624. For Quakers around the world, the 400th anniversary of his birth next year will Read More …
Bournville Quaker Meeting House will again be opening for Heritage Day, and we would be delighted to welcome Friends to join us as volunteers. There will be many hundreds of visitors, and some of them are interested to talk about Read More …
A new post from the Birmingham and Warwickshire Quakers archive project at the Library of Birmingham. “Quakers have a long history of campaigning for prison reform, with perhaps one of the most well-known 19th century reformers being Elizabeth Fry who Read More …
On 22nd June a green plaque will be unveiled remembering Quaker founder George Fox, who was born in the Leicestershire village of Fenny Drayton, near to Hartshill Local Meeting and part of our Area Meeting. Leicestershire County Council Green Plaques Read More …
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 …