Records of Leeds and District Adult School Sub Union of the Society of Friends. 1909-1948.
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Leeds and District Adult School Sub Union of the Society of Friends.
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Following the jubilee of the Friends First Day Schools in Leeds, celebrated in 1897, the movement lost momentum. The Adult Schools lapsed their membership in 1898 and organised their own United Quarterly Meetings. In 1903, following on from enthusiastic meetings at the Friends Adult School in Burley Road, a special meeting took place, addressed by Edwin Gilbert on the question of 'The Adult School Movement in Leeds: shall it go forward?'. The so-called 'forward movement' addressed the lack of re...
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...
