Records of Leeds Fifty Club of the Society of Friends. 1925-1941.
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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 Fifty Club of the Society of Friends.
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The Fifty Club was set up in 1925 at a social evening organised by Joe and Mary Wood. It was a social and literary society, along the lines of the old Leeds Friends Essay and Illustration Society. The committee organised a programme of talks and social events, held in members' homes during the months of October to March. After the outbreak of war in 1939, meetings were disrupted by black-out conditions; in late 1940, the club began to meet at Carlton Hill Meeting House, but this was abandoned af...
