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Irene Pickard (née Speller),  started her adult life as a personal secretary, one of the few occupations open to 'respectable' young...

Rendel Harris (1852 – 1941) is largely forgotten these days. Some Quakers know of him because of the room named after him at Woodbrooke, the...

In researching Irene Pickard's archive it is inevitable that confronting the fundamental issue of the authenticity of Christianity was u...

I must thank Richard Pickvance ( The Friend 29 October) once more for his correction.  Oh dear. David Lockyer’s letter ( 15 October ) conta...

Archives always hold unexpected discoveries. One of them in Irene Pickard's archive was a letter between her and Cary Baynes , best know...

What to do? What to do? Masses of material: many documents, papers, articles, speeches, letters, booklets, notes, drafts, etc. Add an associ...

Fitting an archive into its historical context poses a question of where to begin. The obvious answer is 'begin at the beginning'; b...

 Jung, the Quakers and Hitler – why the Hitler? He certainly was not there when I started.  It began with my being invited to look at an ar...

  Sinaitic Palimpsest I must thank Richard Pickvance (1 October) for knowledgeable correction regarding the relationship of the Sinaitic ...

Then there was Dr Esther M Harding, who died only recently in 1971 but made one of the greatest American contributions of all in volume of ...

It was tiny, just a single sentence editorial introduction to an article in a monthly magazine produced in 1970 – the Quaker Monthly – but ...