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Useful Links

There are several other useful websites and sources of information. Contact details are given for those organisations which do not currently have a website.

Libraries with Quaker Collections

United Kingdom:

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakdes1.htm
Hull History Centre
http//www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk
University of Essex
http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/speccol.htm
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/
University of Lancaster
http://libweb.lancs.ac.uk/
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/
JB Morrell Library, University of York
www.york.ac.uk/services/library/

Ireland:

Friends Historical Library (Dublin): Quaker House, Stocking Lane, Dublin 16. Please note that Friends Historical Library has very limited opening hours.
http://www.quakers-in-ireland.ie/home/about-us/resources/library/historical-library

USA:

The Friends Collection, Earlham College
http://www.earlham.edu/
Haverford College
www.haverford.edu/library/
Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College
www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends
Digital Quaker Collection, Earlham School of Religion
http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/

Archives and repositories

ARCHON
www.archon.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon
National Register of Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/default.asp
Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/quaker/

Genealogy

Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives
www.agra.org.uk
Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com
English Origins
http://www.englishorigins.com/
GENUKI
www.genuki.org.uk
Guild of One Name Studies
http://www.one-name.org.uk/
Quaker Family History Society
http://www.qfhs.co.uk/
Society of Genealogists
http://www.sog.org.uk/

Other resources for Quaker research

Friends Historical Association

Haverford College Library, Haverford, PA 19041, USA.Founded in 1873 for the study, preservation and publication of materials relating to the history of the Religious Society of Friends. Publishes the journal Quaker History twice a year.

Friends Historical Society

c/o Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London. NW1 2BJ. UK. Founded in 1903. It aims to promote the study of Quaker history and to further the religious beliefs of the Religious Society of Friends. Holds meetings, publishes research findings and publishes the Journal of the Friends Historical Society.

Other libraries and on-line catalogues

The Commonweal Collection, University of Bradford - the library holds Quaker writings on peace and related subjects: http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/services/commonweal/
British Library
http://www.bl.uk/
Tripod (combined library catalogue of Brynmawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges)
http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/