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Quakers, Peace And The League Of Nations: The Role Of Bertram Pickard, Maureen Waugh Nov 2014

Quakers, Peace And The League Of Nations: The Role Of Bertram Pickard, Maureen Waugh

Quaker Studies

Bertram Pickard belonged to a generation of Friends who helped to redefine the nature of Quaker international work between 1920 and 1940. In the aftermath of the First World War he played a major role in broadening the Quaker approach to peacemaking, encompassing not only conflict resolution through the peaceful settlement of disputes but also conflict prevention through institution-building at the international level. His support, however, for collective security and a peace enforcement role for the newly created League of Nations provoked strong opposition from those in London Yearly Meeting who viewed any support for the use of force as …

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'On Behalf Of All Young Women Trying To Be Better Than They Are': Feminism And Quakerism In The Nineteenth Century: The Case Of Anna Deborah Richardson, Elizabeth A. O'Donnell Nov 2014

'On Behalf Of All Young Women Trying To Be Better Than They Are': Feminism And Quakerism In The Nineteenth Century: The Case Of Anna Deborah Richardson, Elizabeth A. O'Donnell

Quaker Studies

Historians of the early British women's movement have frequently drawn connections between the theology and practice of Quakerism and the involvement of female Friends in nineteenth-century 'women's rights' campaigns. These connections are usually expressed in terms of religious, organizational and environmental factors particular to Quakerism, and embody the assumption that the cultural milieu of Quaker women was peculiarly conducive to the development of 'feminist consciousness'. This article examines the complexity of these assumed links, through an exploration of the life and writings of Anna Deborah Richardson (1832-1872) of Newcastle Monthly Meeting. Through her close association with Emily Davies, who established …

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James Nayler In The English Civil Wars, David Neelon Nov 2014

James Nayler In The English Civil Wars, David Neelon

Quaker Studies

James Nayler spent between eight and nine years in Parliament's army during the English Civil Wars, but this period of his life has not been adequately discussed in any of his biographies. This article documents causes for the Civil Wars in Nayler's home town and his enlistment, rank and service throughout the wars. His involvement in a list of major battles is shown. Nayler became a member of the Council of War under John Lambert, commander of the Northern Armies, and served as Lambert's Quartermaster in the settlement of the rebellious army troops. As a member of the Council, Nayler …

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Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 6, Issue 1), Pink Dandelion Nov 2014

Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 6, Issue 1), Pink Dandelion

Quaker Studies

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Integrating Gender, Faith And Learning: Women's Mid-Life Passage In The Experience Of Some Quaker And Roman Catholic Adult Students, Pam Lunn Nov 2014

Integrating Gender, Faith And Learning: Women's Mid-Life Passage In The Experience Of Some Quaker And Roman Catholic Adult Students, Pam Lunn

Quaker Studies

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The Embodiment Of Seventeenth Century Quakerism: An Exercise In Historical Anthropology, Peter J. Collins Nov 2014

The Embodiment Of Seventeenth Century Quakerism: An Exercise In Historical Anthropology, Peter J. Collins

Quaker Studies

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Friend In The Field: A Reflexive Approach To Being A Quaker Ethnographer, Eleanor Nesbitt Nov 2014

Friend In The Field: A Reflexive Approach To Being A Quaker Ethnographer, Eleanor Nesbitt

Quaker Studies

Acknowledgement of the significance of reflexivity in social research has generated numerous autobiographical references in introductions to reports of field studies of faith communities. In particular the relevance of the researcher's gender- or at least female gender - has been a subject for scholarly reflection. Moreover, the insider/outsider dichotomy has been invoked and contested, and the changing relationship between the ethnographer and the field during field work has been charted. In this article it is some ethnographers' religious context and orientation that is the focus. With particular reference to some contemporary British Quakers whose field work has had a religious …

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Quaker Heritage Press, Pink Dandelion Nov 2014

Quaker Heritage Press, Pink Dandelion

Quaker Studies

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Roberts' "Researching Yorkshire Quaker History: A Guide To Sources" - Book Review, Angus J.L. Winchester Nov 2014

Roberts' "Researching Yorkshire Quaker History: A Guide To Sources" - Book Review, Angus J.L. Winchester

Quaker Studies

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Arweck & Stringer's "Theorizing Faith: The Insider/Outsider Problem In The Study Of Ritual" - Book Review, Kieran Flanagan Nov 2014

Arweck & Stringer's "Theorizing Faith: The Insider/Outsider Problem In The Study Of Ritual" - Book Review, Kieran Flanagan

Quaker Studies

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Scully's "Quaker Approaches To Moral Issues In Genetics" - Book Review, Nigel Dower Nov 2014

Scully's "Quaker Approaches To Moral Issues In Genetics" - Book Review, Nigel Dower

Quaker Studies

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Wood's "Horace Alexander, 1889 To 1989: Birds And Binoculars" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries Nov 2014

Wood's "Horace Alexander, 1889 To 1989: Birds And Binoculars" - Book Review, Geoffrey Morries

Quaker Studies

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Spielhofer's "Stemming The Dark Tide" And Mendlesohn's "Quaker Relief Work In The Spanish Civil War" - Book Review, Brian Phillips Nov 2014

Spielhofer's "Stemming The Dark Tide" And Mendlesohn's "Quaker Relief Work In The Spanish Civil War" - Book Review, Brian Phillips

Quaker Studies

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Abbott, Chijoke, Dandelion, & Oliver's "Historical Dictionmy Of The Friends (Quakers)" - Book Review, Hugh S. Pyper Nov 2014

Abbott, Chijoke, Dandelion, & Oliver's "Historical Dictionmy Of The Friends (Quakers)" - Book Review, Hugh S. Pyper

Quaker Studies

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Heavilin, B.A. & Heavilin, C.W'S "The Quaker Presence In America: Let Us Then Try What Love Will Do", Hugh Barbour Nov 2014

Heavilin, B.A. & Heavilin, C.W'S "The Quaker Presence In America: Let Us Then Try What Love Will Do", Hugh Barbour

Quaker Studies

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Vann & Eversley's"Friends In Life And Death: The British And Irish Quakers In The Demographic Transition, 1650-1900" - Book Review, Sheila Wright Nov 2014

Vann & Eversley's"Friends In Life And Death: The British And Irish Quakers In The Demographic Transition, 1650-1900" - Book Review, Sheila Wright

Quaker Studies

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Lapsansky & Verplanck's "Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections On A Quaker Ethic On American Design And Consumption" - Book Review, Roger Homan Nov 2014

Lapsansky & Verplanck's "Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections On A Quaker Ethic On American Design And Consumption" - Book Review, Roger Homan

Quaker Studies

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Thomas' "The History And Signifiance Of Quaker Symbols In Sect Formation" - Book Reviewance Of Quaker S, Peter J. Collins Nov 2014

Thomas' "The History And Signifiance Of Quaker Symbols In Sect Formation" - Book Reviewance Of Quaker S, Peter J. Collins

Quaker Studies

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Skidmore's "Strength In Weakness: Writings By Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women" - Book Review, Pam Lunn Nov 2014

Skidmore's "Strength In Weakness: Writings By Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women" - Book Review, Pam Lunn

Quaker Studies

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Villani's "A True Account Of The Great Tryals And Cruel Sufferings Undergone By Those Two Faithful Servants Of God Katherine Evans And Sarah Cheevers: La Vicenda Di Due Quacchere Prigioniere Dell' Inquisizione Di Malta" - Book Review, Pink Dandelion Nov 2014

Villani's "A True Account Of The Great Tryals And Cruel Sufferings Undergone By Those Two Faithful Servants Of God Katherine Evans And Sarah Cheevers: La Vicenda Di Due Quacchere Prigioniere Dell' Inquisizione Di Malta" - Book Review, Pink Dandelion

Quaker Studies

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Friends, Nazis And Communists: The Double Persecution Of Antonie Kleinerova, Maria Dowling Nov 2014

Friends, Nazis And Communists: The Double Persecution Of Antonie Kleinerova, Maria Dowling

Quaker Studies

This article takes as its theme the persecution of religious groups and individuals by governments that aspire to totalitarian power. Its subject is the Quakers of Prague during the first half of the twentieth century who suffered at the hands of both occupying German Nazis and native Czechoslovak Communists. In particular, the article focuses on Antonie Kleinerova (1901-1982), who entered into membership of the Religious Society of Friends in 1933 together with her husband.After the Nazis occupied the Czech lands in 1939 she was active in the underground resistance, and for this reason the couple were among the victims of …

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James Rendel Harris: A Life On The Quest, Alessandro Falcetta Nov 2014

James Rendel Harris: A Life On The Quest, Alessandro Falcetta

Quaker Studies

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The Balby Seekers And Richard Farnworth, Richard J. Hoare Nov 2014

The Balby Seekers And Richard Farnworth, Richard J. Hoare

Quaker Studies

This paper describes the group of Seekers which flourished briefly in 1650 and 1651 around Balby, Warmsworth and Tickhill in South Yorkshire, and explores their origins. They may have numbered up to thirty, and had developed as radical puritans independently of any immediate local Separatist tradition or Grindletonian influence. They joined with George Fox on his arrival around December 1651, providing several pioneers who helped in launching the Quaker movement. These included Richard Farnworth, Thomas Aldam, Benjamin Nicholson, and John, Thomas and Margaret Killam, with Thomas and Elizabeth Stacy from Ballifield near Sheffield. Evidence is presented that Farnworth was born …

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Friends In Business: Researching The History Of Quaker Involvement In Industry And Commerce, Helen Roberts Nov 2014

Friends In Business: Researching The History Of Quaker Involvement In Industry And Commerce, Helen Roberts

Quaker Studies

This paper is intended as an aid to those researching the history of Quaker involvement in industry and commerce, with a regional focus on Yorkshire. A selection of archives of businesses founded and run by Quakers, as well as of family and personal papers of Friends in business are surveyed here. Both the historical context and a summary of the surviving sources are given for each collection surveyed, with details of where the material is held. Examples have been chosen to represent the Quaker contribution to particular trades and industries, and in some cases, to promote collections which have recently …

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The Local Philanthropy Of The Reckitt Family, With Particular Reference To Hull Garden Village, Jane Pietrusiak Nov 2014

The Local Philanthropy Of The Reckitt Family, With Particular Reference To Hull Garden Village, Jane Pietrusiak

Quaker Studies

Sir James Reckitt, a Quaker, Chairman of Reckitt & Sons, Limited, a manufacturer of laundry and household products based in Kingston upon Hull, was well known as a local philanthropist. Philanthropy, perhaps combined with fear of social unrest, but with a firm foundation of his own experience in public life, provided the impetus for Sir James Reckitt to build Hull Garden Village, commencing in 1907. A range of house sizes was rented to the workforce and others, within walUng distance of Reckitt's factories. Local architects Runton & Barry supervised all aspects of the building and village lay out. Community feeling …

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Quaker Families And Business Networks In Nineteenth-Century Darlington, Gillian Cookson Nov 2014

Quaker Families And Business Networks In Nineteenth-Century Darlington, Gillian Cookson

Quaker Studies

This article investigates the central role played by Quakers in the industrial and urban growth of Darlington, focusing in particular upon family and business connections with Friends in the City of London. From the launch of the town's famous first railway, to the ensuing arrival of heavy industry in the 1850s and 1860s, Quakers were at the forefront of industrial and urban developments. While Quaker entrepreneurs possessed advantages in business deriving from their access to finance and advice, and from their reputation for probity, the idea that they also had special talents for foresight, innovation and management, is not borne …

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Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion Nov 2014

Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Pink Dandelion

Quaker Studies

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Guest Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Helen Roberts Nov 2014

Guest Editorial (Quaker Studies Volume 8, Issue 2), Helen Roberts

Quaker Studies

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Public Justice And Personal Liberty: Variety And Linguistic Skill In The Letters Of Mary Fisher, Althea Stewart Nov 2014

Public Justice And Personal Liberty: Variety And Linguistic Skill In The Letters Of Mary Fisher, Althea Stewart

Quaker Studies

This essay concerns the use of language in letters by Mary Fisher, the seventeenth-century Quaker missionary. It shows how she adapts her exegetical discourse to suit her readers, and uses it for more than selfjustification. Her first letter, written from York prison is shown to be influenced by the work of Elizabeth Hooton. It is also used as an example of a letter containing a complex and subtle biblical subtext. This technique gave these early Quaker women the confidence to write. Both Fisher and Hooton started writing to draw attention to injustice. Hooton continued to do this throughout her life; …

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Francis Ellington's Use Of Prophecy To Explain The Appearance, Deliverance, And Apocalyptic Role Of Quakers In The Last Days, Richard G. Bailey Nov 2014

Francis Ellington's Use Of Prophecy To Explain The Appearance, Deliverance, And Apocalyptic Role Of Quakers In The Last Days, Richard G. Bailey

Quaker Studies

Early Quakers rarely relied on ancient or modern (seventeenth century) prophecy to authenticate their faith. The reason for this was their emphasis on inner revelation. After the Nayler episode Quakers slowly began to turn their energies toward making necessary theological and institutional adjustments that would better enable the movement to control the radical individualism of the inner light. One area that has not received much attention is how attitudes toward prophecy were changing. This paper focuses on one distinctive Quaker pamphlet which appeared in 1664. Francis Ellington's A Christian Information Conce��ning These Last Times demonstrates how one Quaker was strugglmg …

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