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WITNESS AGAINST WAR: a conference on researching the Quaker
peace testimony
Date: 1pm-4.30pm, Saturday 31 March 2001
Venue: Dennison Centre, University of Hull
Cost: 10 pounds (including refreshments)
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Organised by the Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project, this is
the second in a series of conferences which will take place
during the course of the project.  It is aimed at
researchers in the field of Quaker history, and the history
of pacifism and the peace movement, as well as local
Friends, local historians, and archivists/special
collections librarians.

The conference will focus on the history of the Quaker
peace testimony, the particular experience of Quakers in
Yorkshire in interpreting that testimony during the 20th
century, and the archival and printed sources available for
research in this area.

Programme
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12.30pm Registration and coffee
1.00pm Welcome
1.05pm The Quaker peace testimony and its contribution to
the British peace movement, Martin Ceadel
1.50pm The anti-war movement in Huddersfield, 1914-1918,
Cyril Pearce
2.15pm York Friends and the Second World War, David
Rubinstein
2.40pm The history of the Northern Friends Peace Board,
Brenda Rigby
2.50pm The Commonweal Collection, Chris Arber
3.10pm The Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project: using its
resources to research the peace testimony, Helen Roberts
3.30pm Tea and discussion
4.30pm Close

Speakers
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Martin Ceadel, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College,
Oxford
Cyril Pearce, Senior Lecturer, School of Cultural Studies,
Bretton Hall College
David Rubinstein, Honorary Fellow, Department of History,
University of York
Brenda Rigby, member of the Northern Friends Peace Board
Chris Arber, Outreach Worker, The Commonweal Collection,
Bradford
Helen Roberts, Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project Archivist

To book, please complete the form below and return with a
cheque for 10 pounds made payable to 'The University of
Hull'.
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Booking form
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University of Hull on 31 March 2001.

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CLOSING DATE FOR BOOKINGS: 16 March 2001
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For further information please contact:

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

Tel: 01482 465681
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib/archives/quaker