Saturday, 22 April 2023

Exluded from the Record: Katherine Storr

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 Women, Refugees and Relief, 1914–1929 Go into any main stream bookshop, or library for that matter, and look at the amount of shelf space g...
Saturday, 15 April 2023

Personal or Civil use of force v military use of force

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The classic "what if" thrown at pacifists, anti-militarist, and other assorted peaceniks, is to ask what they would do if someone ...
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Friday, 17 March 2023

History is written into the stuff we are made of

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For my birthday my partner bought me a 23andme genetic ancestry testing kit. This is where family oral history and legends meet science. Puz...
Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Do monotheists have a monopoly over religion?

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I feel the Religious Society of Friends would be misrepresented if the marriage declaration was altered along the lines suggested in the F...
Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Participation mystique: inherited guilt & reparations

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Reparations for slavery (The Friend) 5 Jan 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy Decision to make reparations for the transatlan...
Friday, 10 February 2023

The Eternal Triangle: Rendel Harris, Irene Speller (Pickard) & Helen Sheerlock

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When I started investigating Irene Pickard's archive and using it as a lens to see her life and times through, I did not expect to find ...
Saturday, 21 January 2023

Windy Doctrines

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Lately we were visited at our Sunday Meetings by a devout and recently born again "Christian" of a somewhat evangelical bent. Dur...