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J. W. Rowntree at Manchester The Report on the 1895 Manchester Conference seems not to be online anywhere, which is surprising and a shame, as the Conference is widely understood to be one of the turning points in the history of the Society of Friends. It was where a new generation of Friends, keen to…
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An edited version of this piece appeared in the 2 July 2020 edition of the Friend. My boss and I were waiting in a client’s reception. On a TV showing rolling news came a piece reporting the shutdown of CERN for an upgrade. My boss sighed, ‘All that money, and for what?’ I said, ‘Well,…
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An edited version of this piece was published in the Friend on 10 November 2022, in response to an article in the 27 October edition. There is a road on the estate where my parent’s care home is called ‘Meetinghouse Lane’. They can’t remember whether or not there ever was a Meetinghouse. Maybe it’s become one…
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An edited version of this piece appeared in `the Friend’ of 22 February 2024 (login required) As a Quaker I find myself reluctant to embrace the term ‘war crime’. It invites us to sometimes say: but this is only war, not a crime. Twelve Friends declared for the information of Charles Stuart (called King) in…