Records of Leeds : Roundhay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1929-1988.

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Records of Leeds : Roundhay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends. 1929-1988.

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Leeds: Roundhay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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An Allowed Meeting opened in Roundhay, near Leeds, in 1927, as part of Leeds Monthly Meeting. This became a full Preparative Meeting in 1931 and Friends acquired a bungalow at 136 Street Lane for use as a Meeting House that same year. Worship still takes place at the same site. From the guide to the Records of Leeds: Roundhay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1929-1988, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...