December 2020
Passion and Partings Talk
Next Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk All are welcome to join the Zoomed Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk on Monday December 21st at 7.30pm, when Jane Mace will be talking about her new book Passion and Partings – the dying sayings of early Quakers. The habit of taking down the words of Quakers on their deathbed flourished in the 17th Century. Jane has sourced many of these and considers how they were used by Quakers at the time…
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Forest Quaker Talk
February Forest Quaker Library Talk, Monday 21st at 7.30pm via Zoom Next Monday, Elyn Mitchell will introduce us to recent book called Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London’s Streets. Its author is Jennifer Kavanagh, a Quaker. In 2018, with notebook and recorder in hand, Kavanagh set off to create an oral history of the men and women who make up the street life of our modern capital. Kavanagh was inspired by a famous Victorian journalist,…
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