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Yorkshire Quaker collections
Over the years the transfer of records from the direct custody of Quaker Meetings has resulted in their dispersal amongst regional universities, libraries and record offices. Their location and scope can therefore be confusing. A large proportion of the surviving records are held by the project partners. These range from the records of the Yorkshire General Meeting and its constituent Monthly Meetings (including Malton, Scarborough, Pickering, Owstwick and Cave, Hull, Pickering and Hull, Brighouse, Knaresborough, Leeds, Settle, Thirsk and York), and libraries of Quaker writings built up by local Meetings, to the papers of Quaker families, such as the Tukes of York, the company archives of the chocolate and confectionary manufacturers, Rowntree & Co., the archives of the pioneering Quaker-run Retreat in York, and the social survey material of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1871-1954).
An overview is available for each project partner and associated repositories:
Hull University Brynmor Jones Library | Leeds University Library | Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York University | Library of the Religious Society of Friends | East Riding of Yorkshire Archives Service
