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Swarthmore Lecture moves online

Updated 2 August 2020

The 2020 Swarthmore Lecture, part of the work of Woodbrooke and a key feature in the life of Quakers in Britain, will be delivered online on Saturday by social scientist, writer and broadcaster, Tom Shakespeare.

Swarthmore Lecture moves online

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Bookings to open for Quaker Gathering

Updated 17 May 2021

This summer, Quakers across Britain are set to explore a three-week festival of their faith. An adventurous Yearly Meeting Gathering will be online, with worship and sessions for all ages.

Bookings to open for Quaker Gathering

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Quakers hold the silence for their beliefs

Updated 4 February 2025

This year's Quaker Week began (suitably) with silence as hundreds of Quakers across England and Scotland held climate vigils.

Quakers hold the silence for their beliefs

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Don’t recruit children, Quakers say, amid reports of sexual assault at a military training centre

Updated 4 February 2025

Nine rapes were reported to the police at Harrogate's Army Foundation College last year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has shown.

Don’t recruit children, Quakers say, amid reports of sexual assault at a military training centre

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Quakers and others say government’s public position on weapons licences to Israel at odds with what it has admitted in litigation

Updated 4 February 2025

The government must suspend arms transfers to Israel instead of stating that it has provided no lethal or military equipment, Quakers and others warned this week.

Quakers and others say government’s public position on weapons licences to Israel at odds with what it has admitted in litigation

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Quakers join international campaign to stop foreign complicity in Israel's illegal settlement project

Updated 16 September 2025

Quakers in Britain has joined more than 80 civil society organisations in a new campaign, Stop Trade with Settlements.

Quakers join international campaign to stop foreign complicity in Israel's illegal settlement project

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Powerful commemoration of every life lost in war

Updated 10 November 2025

This Remembrance Sunday, Every Casualty Counts, hosted by Quakers in Britain, remembered all those killed in wars by projecting a Virtual Cenotaph onto the front of Friends House.

Powerful commemoration of every life lost in war

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8 questions Gavin Williamson needs to answer about army schools

Updated 9 April 2018

Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Defence, has commissioned a review of the benefits of schools with a 'military ethos'. The military's “skills, values, and can-do attitude can inspire today's young people to challenge themselves and reach their potential," according to Williamson.

8 Questions Gavin Williamson needs to answer about army schools

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Why should we protest against DSEI?

Updated 3 August 2023

In 2019, when I was 15, I attended a protest against the Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair (DSEI) alongside hundreds of peace activists, many of whom were Quakers. We gathered outside the ExCel centre in London to block the entrance, share art, sing, and hold meetings for worship in remembrance of the countless victims of war.

Why should we protest against DSEI?

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The long-term cost of war: how sending landmines to Ukraine undermines the fight for a mine-free future

Updated 22 November 2024

After I spoke on the radio back in 2023 about peace and pacifism in the context of the war in Ukraine, I had a Quaker get in touch with me. One problem with war, he said, was its corrupting nature "even on those whose cause, like the Ukrainians, is just". Over time, groups and countries can start to use tactics that they earlier condemned, such as the use of landmines.

The long-term cost of war: how sending landmines to Ukraine undermines the fight for a mine-free future