Darlington Football Club currently sit in the National League North, the sixth level of the English football pyramid. While other teams in the league boast nicknames like Scarborough’s ‘The Seadogs’,…
Woodbrooke is delighted to announce that Stuart Masters will give the 2026 Swarthmore Lecture. Stuart’s lecture will focus on the faith and practice of the first Friends and explore how…
In this blog, Emily Provance, 2025 Swarthmore Lecturer, shares insights from the research behind her upcoming Lecture, drawing on Quaker texts from across traditions to explore how we live and…
In this blog, Wendy Pattinson reflects on the vital role of soil in our connection to the Earth and the importance of caring for it as an act of love…
The 2025 Eva Koch Scholars share their backgrounds and what they are exploring in their scholarship. Hezron Masitsa Hezron Masitsa is a Quaker, a member of Nairobi Yearly Meeting, Kenya….
Woodbrooke’s Centre for Research in Quaker Studies has partnered with The Queen’s Foundation to offer taught modules with a Quaker element as part of their Postgraduate Certificate in Theology and…
Woodbrooke is delighted to announce that Emily Provance will give the 2025 Swarthmore Lecture. Emily’s lecture will focus on the meaning of Quaker community and how community is integral to…
As an Archers devotee for more than 40 years, I was fascinated to discover recently that the original idea for this dramatic story of a farming community has two significant…
Worldwide Quakerism can be seen as an extended family tree – with many branches spreading out in different directions and bearing different fruit. But when we come down to it,…
Woodbrooke’s Communications Officer Aled Vernon-Rees explores the unlikely anti-monopolist and Quaker history of Monopoly and asks if we can still see these roots in todays game. I have always felt…
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