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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’,…

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….

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,…

On Earth Day 2024, Kim Harrison reflects on the importance of ecological homecoming after her recent Glenthorne retreat. The sense of ecological homecoming that we can feel in nature is…

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…

Last year Amanda Jones completed the yearlong Exploring Faith and Climate Justice course run in partnership by Woodbrooke and Quakers in Britain. At the Climate Justice Gathering which followed, a…

The great revelation of 17th century Quakers was their lived experience of direct immediate contact with God. Even though we may now use different terms to describe our sense of…