Posts by matthewC

Reading Quaker, Yuan Yang, has been elected as the first Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Earley and Woodley.

This year marks 400 years since the birth of one of Quakerism’s founders, George Fox. As part of the celebrations, some Quakers from the Mid Thames Area attended the annual…

A band and caller, reams of bunting, lots of cheer, 40 Quakers and friends, and 1800 square-feet of Meeting House floor space on which to dance. All ages gathered from…

The History of Reading Society were given a talk on Quakers in Reading and a guided tour of our Meeting House via Zoom. In addition to local social, economic, and…

Friends from Reading attended an online Quaker Family History Society talk by Chris Skidmore, Conflict over Quaker marriages in seventeenth-century Reading. “Between about 1685 and 1715 there were two antagonistic…

World Quaker Day was marked in Reading with a climate-justice vigil, and by taking the peace of our silent waiting worship to Broad Street. This was followed by the procession…

Quakers and friends in Reading protested outside Reading Crown Court, along with similar demonstrators nationally, to remind jurors of their right to make decisions according to their conscience. This right, first established in…

The Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin, Reading, hosted the interfaith event ‘Dialogues on prayer’, which was well attended by Quakers, Hindus, Muslims, Jews and Methodist and Anglican Christian.…