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| Name of Library: |
Religious Society of Friends in Britain (Quakers) |
| Address: |
Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ |
| Society of Friends Library; Friends House Library |
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Head of Library and Archives |
| Purpose and main user community of the library |
| Members of the Religious Society of Friends and bona fide researchers |
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completion of reader registration form with proof of identification & address. Hourly
fee for pursuing genealogical research. 50 year rule on archival material |
| Tuesday-Friday 10.00 – 17.00
The Library’s annual closed week will take place 18-22 May 2009 |
| The Library is one the Ground floor; most
of the Reading Room is accessible., but there are books on high shelves |
| Some books can be borrowed by registered
readers |
| Periodicals - Back Issues |
| Central records of Britain Yearly Meeting (formerly London Yearly Meeting) from 1650's |
| onwards; mss; 950 microfilms; approx. 20,000 photographs. |
| Quakerism; C17 theology; peace; conscientious objection; anti-slavery; international relations |
| Swarthmore mss - C17 letters and transcripts relating to early Quakerism (approx. 1,400 |
| items); A.R. Barclay collection - 250 letters 1654-1688; Wilkinson, Lloyd and Barclay (Bury Hill) |
| Major library on Quakerism in the UK + internationally, holding the chief sources of early |
| Quaker history and the central archives of the Society of Friends in the UK. |
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Photocopying of printed items published post 1900; microfilming; digital copying |
| Retrospective cataloguing of printed
collections is on-going |
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