Quaker Centre Events

February 2012

Quaker History Meeting:
No Respecter of Persons - the impact of 17th century Quaker Persecution History on the 18th century radicalism of Tom Paine

Tuesday 28 February, 6.00 for 6.30-8.00pm in the Quaker Centre

After introducing the mysterious phenomenon that was the world-wide political importance of the nobody, Tom Paine – Sybil Oldfield will:

a) summarise the brutality of the persecution of the Quakers;

b) link up Paine’s own Quaker connections with his Quaker father in Thetford;

c) indicate what his radicalism owed to the influence of Quakerism.

Was Moncure Conway right to say “Had there been no Quakerism, there would have been no Tom Paine”? Sybil Oldfield is Research Reader in English at the University of Sussex.

Please register for a free place at www.quaker.org.uk/quakerhistory

Friends House Library will be open until 6pm on the evening of the event.