Post round table & various board meetings, now home frm fabulous #QSRA2015. Positive atmosphere & gr8 papers. Thanks to all participants!
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Take out techniques assoc w settlement movement, in which many were involved, to #humanitarian work w ppl on Continent #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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Transmission of #humanitarian work thru generations, btwn local & global, & as part of lineage of #Quaker service #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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UK & US #humanitarian workers in #ww1 operated differently, but Barrow keen to foster shared mission #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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The dignity of work & the rhetoric&enablement of self-help important for Barrow & other #ww1 #humanitarian wmn workers #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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Florence stressed working w ppl/'recipients' on a personal level, some links made in #ww1 ctd for yrs afterwards #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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Many in Friends War Victims Relief Committee, incl Florence Barrow. For her,& others, #humanitarian work was lifelong #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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Final presentn, by wonderful @sianllroberts, spking abt #Birmingam #Quaker women & transnational #humanitarian relief #QSRA2015 #aidhistory
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For Graham, scientific, Darwinian evolution was optimistic & echoed in & even offered hope for the evolution of peace #QSRA2015
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Graham was called 'the most belligerent little pacifist' in #Manchester #QSRA2015
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Graham, a Quaker, both felt something must be done in response to invasion of Belgium, & never quite understood #ww1 absolutists #QSRA2015
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Final presentations.
Nxt Joanna Dales abt John Wm Graham, peace & #ww1. Graham was Warden of UoM's Dalton Hall as #fww commenced #QSRA2015
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No. of Welsh Qs small.Stats difficult: missing returns+can be member/attender at Quaker meeting. Either way,under 70 eligible men #QSRA2015
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Welsh press sympathetic to Qs pre-conscription. Thereafter in #ww1 in certain quarters #Quakers were shirkers, & shirkers Quaker #QSRA2015
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Evans giving elongated overview of Welsh Qs, the peace testimony & response to raising militias & Napoleonic wars #QSRA2015
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Fry goes out to E France to work w/ the Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee. #QSRA2015
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In #ww1 Fry treads tightrope btwn suffrage & the widespread support of the war, & her belief in pacifism. #QSRA2015
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W/ few outlets open to educated women, she returned home. 1st mention of Fry's abt interntl affairs was Emily Hobhouse & S. Africa #QSRA2015
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Margery was a birthright Quaker. Her parents sent sons to school. Margery fought to gain her education, & went to Oxford #QSRA2015
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Nxt up is @AnneFHLoganKent - all abt Margery Fry's views on war & peace #QSRA2015
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Non-Quaker former adult schooler Percy Howard writes home abt worship at a Friends Meeting Hut. Adult schools a theme this session #QSRA2015
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Another key theme of #ww1 letters is the conversion & revival of faith, often under fire & through impromptu prayer meetings #QSRA2015
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Key theme of #ww1 combatants' letters is the great solace found in faith & in their community/faith group back home. #QSRA2015
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First up this morning, Andy Vail tlking abt #Birmingham Protestant Nonconformist combatants' faith in their #ww1 letters home #QSRA2015
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Last night's fabulous lecture by @Brycchan was recorded (hence phones off & no tweets). Will tweet link to podcast when uploaded. #QSRA2015
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Battery abt to collapse. Will resume tweeting in @Brycchan's George Richardson Lecture tonight #QSRA2015
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AFSC assignments incl medical, relief work, agriculture & construction. French suspicious of farm machinery,but came out to watch #QSRA2015
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The 100 men of the Haverford Unit of the American Friends Service Committee incl farmer Roland Macy #QSRA2015
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