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Category: Quaker History

Glimpses into Quaker History focusing on buildings, volunteers and meeting management.

  • #AdventWord 2019: 2 Visit

    #AdventWord 2019: 2 Visit

    One of the things I love about working for MBS is the chance to visit so many meeting houses and churches. Each looks different, each reflects the time and place that it was designed, built, or renovated. There is a collection of images on Flickr created by a Quaker photographer John Hall – well worth

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  • Radical Spirituality

    Lancaster University are running a free on line course exploring how/why Quakers formed and grew into the radical group they are today. ” Together, we will explore the beginnings of Quakerism and this critical piece of religious history of a group who gathered around a radical and outspoken spiritual message that was to change the

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  • Quaker A-Z: H is for History plus Health & Safety

    Quaker A-Z: H is for History plus Health & Safety

    This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. H is for History plus Health & Safety History In B is for Buildings I mentioned writing down a history of the building to act as a corporate memory for Premises Committee. There is of course so much relating to the

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