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DAUGHTERS OF LIGHT: a conference on researching Quakers and women in
historical perspective
Date: 1pm-4.30pm, Saturday 27 April 2002
Venue: Edward Boyle Library, University of Leeds
Cost: 7.50 GBP (including refreshments)
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Organised by the Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project, this is the fourth
in the series of conferences which has taken place during the course of
the project. The project is due to finish on 31 July and this will
therefore be the last such conference. It is aimed at researchers in
the field of Quaker history and women's history, as well as local
historians, local Friends, and archivists/special collections
librarians.

The conference will focus on researching women Friends, their
experiences and activities as Quakers and within their local
communities. It will include papers on early sufferings of women
Friends in Durham and of early women's meetings in east Yorkshire, and
more detailed studies of the lives of a group of 18th century women
ministers and of the diary of a woman Friend in south Wales. A review
of the work of the project is also featured.

Programme
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12.30pm Registration and coffee
1.00pm Welcome
1.05pm Review of the Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project, Helen Roberts
1.25pm The importance of local records of Quaker women's testimony
in Durham, Erin Bell
1.55pm Early women's meetings in East Yorkshire, Gareth Shaw
2.25pm Discussion and tea
2.55pm Qualifications and queries: differing attitudes to 18th
century Quaker women travelling ministers, Gil Skidmore
3.25pm The diary of Abial Folger and the Milford Haven Quakers
c.1791-1820, Richard Allen
4.10pm Discussion
4.30pm Close

Speakers
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Helen Roberts, Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project Archivist
Erin Bell, PhD student, University of York
Gareth Shaw, PhD student, University of Hull
Gil Skidmore, Quaker writer and editor, Reading
Dr Richard Allen, research fellow, University of Northumbria

To book, please complete the form below and return it with a cheque for
7.50 GBP made payable to 'The University of Hull'.
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CLOSING DATE FOR BOOKINGS: 12 April 2002
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For further information please contact:

Helen E Roberts
Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
Brynmor Jones Library
University of Hull
Hull HU6 7RX

Tel: 01482 465265
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Website: www.hull.ac.uk/lib/archives/quaker/