Friends House Moscow has a library of publications about Quakers that we have translated into Russian. They are available for viewing and download on our Russian language website here: http://quakers.ru/category/library/ Around 60 titles in Russian are now included in the online library. They are available (mostly free of charge) as e-books in a variety of […]
British Quaker Myrtle Wright happened to arrive in Oslo on 6 April 1940, three days before the German attack. She remained in Norway until 1944 and then became a refugee in Sweden. This diary is the story of a family and experiences shared with them, and Norway’s non-violent resistance against the ideology of Nazism. To […]
This is the book of the 2006 Swarthmore Lecture. “As well as their outward and visible work for justice and peace there was a time when Quakers were recognised in public for their distinctive clothes in subdued colours and for an alternative lifestyle, both at home and work. Now, in 2006, the public witness remains […]
In 1950 a small group of American Quakers, conscientious objectors, left Alabama for Costa Rica. Their community settled in the wilderness of a tropical forest. Step by step they establish a way of life: starting a dairy farm, building roads, a school, a power station, a factory. Gradually an awareness of a need to protect […]
This collection of passages from the writings of George Fox (1624–1691) is meant to do two things: to make available his clearest and most profound writings from all that was written by Fox, and to display these texts in such a way as to show the connections between them. Therefore, it is possible to read […]