The Quakers in Chichester: Recent Episodes
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Season 1, Michael Woolley researches the Quakers in Chichester from 1655, the very beginning of Quakers. Short segments of social history from Sussex in the UK.
Barton Hack traveled to Oz to become a founder of the new city of Adelaide in the mid 19th century. Considered to be too soft hearted to be a true Australian he was clearly much loved.
Michael Woolley brings us up to 1956 with the best selling author of the The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier. He charts why being a Quaker was important to this master at Midhurst Grammar School and how he came to write the story of refugee children who were traveling from Poland to Switzerland after WW2.
Here are the Quakers in the early 19th century getting universal education going for both boys and girls. Michael Woolley tells the tale.
Reaching the late 1880s we come to the tale of the Quaker Mayor who fought for the building of the sewage system in Chichester. Researched and read by Michael Woolley, who has himself been a Quaker Mayor here.
George Fox, expressing the ideas of seekers and radicals, visits in 1655. Researched and read by Michael Woolley.
https://chichesterquakers.org.uk/history/
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania in the US, started out in Sussex in the 17th century. Did he ever visit our newly constructed Quaker Meeting House? Michael Woolley looks at the evidence.