Exploring the Second World War Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Relief Service Records

2023/06/07 by Lisa McQuillan · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment #Cultural History and Identity Formation #Colonialism, slavery, and trade

paper · doi:10.3828/quaker.2023.28.1.9

openalex publication_date 2023/06/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/12/24

Abstract

This Research Note gives a brief introduction to the Library of the Society of Friends, based at Friends House in London, and focuses on a recent Wellcome Trust-funded project to catalogue and preserve the archival collections of two Quaker relief bodies in the Second World War: Friends Relief Service and Friends Ambulance Unit.1 The aim is to give a high-level overview of the collections, referencing some of the existing historiography and hopefully shining a light on some areas of particular interest for new academic research.

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