Friends and Armenian relief
April 24 is commemorated as the official anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which began in April 1915 with the round-up of Armenian intellectuals, followed by massacres and forced exile of hundr…
Overseas Mission Work
Armenia/Turkey
The French Revolution: Quakers and cockades
When our project cataloguer came across a cockade (a type of ribbon rosette for wearing on a hat or pinned to a garment) from 1792 revolutionary France among the A. Ruth Fry papers (TEMP MSS 373), …
France
Friends as missionaries: contemporary reports, newsletters and magazines
This blog post introduces some of the periodicals that document British Quakers’ activity in the foreign mission field from the second half of the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mis…
150 years of Friends and foreign missions
26th May 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Friends Foreign Mission Association in 1868. This put overseas mission and relief work on a permanent footing fo…
Quakerism and India : Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989
3 preliminary leaves, 40 pages ; 19 cm
India#India#19th Century#20th Century#Relief Work#Overseas Work#Missionaries#Friends Foreign Mission Association#Friends Ambulance Unit#WW2Life in West China: Described by Two Residents in the Province of Sz-Chwan : Robert John Davidson , Isaac Mason
China#China#Isaac Mason (1870-1939)#Robert John Davidson (1864-1942)#Missionaries#Overseas Work#19th Century#20th Century#Digital CopiesFriends beyond seas : Hodgkin, Henry Theodore, 1877-1933
Samuel Baker of Hoshangabad a sketch of Friends' missions in India : Pumphrey, Caroline W
India#India#Friends Foreign Mission Association#19th Century#Rachel Metcalf (1828-1889)#Missionaries#Overseas Work#Samuel Baker (1856-1899)London Missionary Society Archive [Catalogue record only - not digitised]
Bound Foot Boots
Rev. Robert John Davidson (1864-1942) and his wife Mary Jane Davidson (1847-1918) were Quaker missionaries at the Friends' Foreign Mission Association in Chungking, Szechuan, China from 1890-1894. As well as being a missionary, Mary was a trained nurse and midwife and helped the local community. She is probably responsible for the large number of items in the Museum's collection which relate to women and children. In 1895 the Davidsons returned to Britain, where they toured the country lecturing at Quaker meetings about Chinese life and customs. During these lectures they would dress up and act out aspects of Chinese life, their 6 year old son Robin demonstrating the use of chopsticks, for example. A collection of Chinese objects was used to illustrate their lectures. While in Britain they visited The Horniman Museum and spoke with Frederick Horniman, himself a Quaker, who bought 338 items of their collection for £81.00.
Ten Years' Review of Mission Work in Madagascar. 1880-1890 : London Missionary Society, London Missionary Society , Richard Baron , Friends' foreign mission association
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Madagascar#Friends Foreign Mission Association#Madagascar#London Missionary Society#19th Century#MissionariesA man in shining armour : the story of the life of William Wilson, M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P., missionary in Madagascar, secretary of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association
A review of twenty-five years' work of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association : 1866 to 1891 : Friends' Foreign Mission Association (London, England)
Friends Foreign Mission Association Reports#Reports#Friends Foreign Mission Association#Digital Copies#Overseas Work#Madagascar#India#China#19th CenturyFriends to China : the Davidson brothers and the Friends' mission to China 1886 to 1939 : Tyzack, Charles [Free account required]
vi, 215 pages : 21 cm
Quaker pioneers in Russia : Benson, Jane, 1823-1906
Russia#Russia#19th Century#Stephen Grellet (1772-1855)#Daniel Wheeler (1771-1840)#William Allen (1770-1843)#Missionaries#Overseas WorkSleigh ride to Russia : an account of the Quaker mission to St. Petersburg by Robert Charleton, Henry Pease and Joseph Sturge in 1854 to present an address to Czar Nicholas from Meeting for sufferings to try to avert the outbreak of the Crimean War [Free Account Required]
Report of the proceedings of the Conference at Darlington on Foreign Missions held, by direction of London Yearly Meeting, 1896.
Cloth from Antanarivo | British Museum
Collected by donor's brother-in-law, John Sims, a Quaker Missionary (Friend's [sic] Foreign Mission) mainly at Antanatteo [? Partly illegible], from about 64 years ago (1885 on).
Madagascar#19th Century#Missionaries#Friends Foreign Mission Association#John Sims (1862-1927)#MadagascarUniversity of Tasmania - Quaker Collection
Australian Joint Copying Project - Records of the Society of Friends
Australia & Pacific Islands#Australia#Tasmania#Digital Copies#New Zealand#Continental Committee#Epistles#Testimonies#Australasian Committee#Daniel Wheeler (1771-1840)#James Backhouse (1794-1869)#Robert Lindsey (1801-1863)#Sarah (Crosland) Lindsey (1804-1876)#Friends' School Hobart#Charles Holdsworth (1848-1934)#William Benson (1848-1927)#Alfred Wright Stones (1831-1901)#Isaac Sharp (1806-1897)#Lucy Fryer Morland (1864-1945)
Quaker Biographies
Biographical information about over 1,350 people associated with Quakers in Australia.
Friends Syrian Mission Twenty-Seventh Annual Report 1896
Friends Syrian Mission Annual Report#Syria#Periodicals#Reports#Digital Copies#Friends Syrian Mission#Overseas Work#19th Century#Friends Foreign Mission AssociationFriends Syrian Mission Twenty-Sixth Annual Report 1895
Friends Syrian Mission Annual Report#Syria#Periodicals#Reports#Digital Copies#Friends Syrian Mission#Overseas Work#19th Century#Friends Foreign Mission AssociationFriends Syrian Mission Twenty-Fifth Annual Report 1894
Friends Syrian Mission Annual Report#Syria#Periodicals#Reports#Digital Copies#Friends Syrian Mission#Overseas Work#19th Century#Friends Foreign Mission AssociationFriends Syrian Mission Twentieth Annual Report 1889
Friends Syrian Mission Annual Report#Syria#Periodicals#Reports#Digital Copies#Friends Syrian Mission#Overseas Work#19th Century#Friends Foreign Mission AssociationFriends Syrian Mission Eighteenth Annual Report 1887
Friends Syrian Mission Annual Report#Syria#Periodicals#Reports#Digital Copies#Friends Syrian Mission#Overseas Work#19th Century#Friends Foreign Mission AssociationFriends Syrian Mission Seventeenth Annual Report 1886
Friends Syrian Mission Annual Report#Syria#Periodicals#Reports#Digital Copies#Friends Syrian Mission#Overseas Work#19th Century#Friends Foreign Mission AssociationAnnual report of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association, v. 24 (1891)
Friends Foreign Mission Association Reports#Reports#Digital Copies#Periodicals#Friends Foreign Mission Association#India#Madagascar#China#Overseas Work#19th CenturyAnnual report of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association, v. 23 (1890)
Friends Foreign Mission Association Reports#Reports#Digital Copies#Periodicals#Friends Foreign Mission Association#India#Madagascar#China#Overseas Work#19th Century