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www.quaker.org.uk The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain , also known as Britain Yearly Meeting (and, until 1995, London Yearly Meeting ), is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Scott Bader Commonwealth, British manufacturer of advanced resins and composites, founded by Ernest Bader in 1951; Sony (formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, or Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering, Co.), TTK's founding board president was Tamon Maeda, a Japanese Quaker, prewar Japanese ambassador to ILO, and postwar Minister of Education
The Friend is a weekly Quaker magazine published in London, UK. It is the only Quaker weekly in the world, and has been published continuously since 1843. It began as a monthly and in January 1892 became a weekly. [1] It is one of the oldest continuously published publications in the world still in operation.
Joan Vokins (née Bunce) was an early Quaker missionary from England. She preached in British Colonial America, the West Indian Islands, Ireland, and England. The Valiant Sixty were a group of Quaker preachers from northern England that made missionary efforts Great Britain, Europe, North America, and Turkey. Some of the members of this group ...
Elisabeth Harvey Rowntree, always known as Tessa (1909–1999), was a British Quaker who worked in Czechoslovakia in 1938–1939 evacuating refugees who were fleeing from oppression by Nazi Germany. Rowntree is known for escorting trainloads of refugees through German controlled areas to seaports in Poland and the Netherlands where they boarded ...
Kashatus, William C. Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution (1990). Kashatus, William C. Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and the Civil War: "A Trial of Faith and Principle" (2010). Kennedy, Thomas C. British Quakerism, 1860–1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community. (2001). 477 pp. Larson ...
The first Quaker connection to Russia came in 1656 when British Quaker George Fox sent an epistle to the Tsar of Muscovy Aleksei Mikhailovich. In 1697, Peter the Great visited England as part of the Grand Embassy where he was presented with Barclay's Apology and other Quaker works. [ 6 ]
The Underground Railroad, 1893 depiction of the anti-slavery activities of a Northern Quaker named Levi Coffin by Charles T. Webber. The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. [1]