October 2023 – Black History Month
October 2023 – Black History Month “Black history is OUR history and a steppingstone for our future. We must be connected to our past in order to change our future.” Chandelis R. Duster
Resource Topic: History
The Joseph Wood Archive
This archive consists five volumes of notebooks in PDF format by Quietist Quaker Joseph Wood.
Quaker Studies Thesis – Summarised
Summaries of Postgraduate Theses on Quaker Topics, including Social Sciences – Quakers today; Quaker History – Stories of the Past; Theology – what did and do Quakers believe?
Quaker Study Series 2013
At Canadian Yearly Meeting 2013, Ben Pink Dandelion held a series of Quaker Study sessions over five days from 19 to 23 August.
Quaker Historical Corpus
The Quaker Historical Corpus (QHC) consists of 173 texts written by Quakers between 1650 and 1690. All the texts are derived from copies held in the Library of Friends House, London.
The Future of Quakerism
Where does Quakerism sit in the wider religious landscape today? Where will it be in 25 years’ time?
Quakers and Ecumenism
This talk will look at how ecumenism first became possible in the nineteenth century and how Friends can relate to other Christians and other faiths today.
What Quakers Believe
There are Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish and atheist Quakers today – how do they all co-exist?
Quaker Worship and Witness
The radical mysticism of Quakerism, which is based on the idea that God can be experienced without the mediation of priest or text at any time, in any place.
The History of Quakerism
An accessible account of the history of Quakerism from the time when it was a movement setting out to change the world, abolish slavery and promote women’s rights.
