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Library of the Religious Society of Friends
The Library of the Religious Society of Friends is more commonly known as Friends House Library. It is the repository for one of the largest collections of materials in the world relating to Quakers and their activities, and was started as early as 1673. It holds the central archives of Britain Yearly Meeting, the major Quaker periodicals and monograph publications, as well as manuscripts and pictures. Particularly important items include the Great Books of Sufferings, Quarterly Meeting returns of sufferings, the Wensleydale Journal of Norman Penney, numerous printed tracts, and the virtually unique Dictionary of Quaker Biography. A large number of collections of personal papers of individual Quakers who had strong connections with Yorkshire are held here. These include Thomas Aldam, William Dewsbury, James Nayler and several members of the Rowntree and Tuke families. The Library also has a number of particularly useful finding aids, such as the Gazetteer of Quaker Meetings and the listing of surviving Meeting records.
To search for further information about these collections, use the location register. To find out contact details for the repository, go to the project gateway.
