Records of Bradford Friends Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society. 1867-1873.
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Bradford Friends Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society.
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This Society was established in December 1867 with the aim of promoting the "mental, moral and social improvement of its members, by means of essays, debating and general miscellaneous readings". It met every two weeks and its first secretary was G.H. Braithwaite. Meetings were opened and closed by reading 'a portion of scripture'. By mid 1873, the Society was in decline. Activity revived the following year in the form of the Bradford Friends Essay and Discussion Society, which operated on very ...
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...
