Quaker history and biography

Displaced By War : Gertrude Powicke and Quaker Relief in France and Poland 1915-1919

In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida.

Friends in Deed is the inspiring and deeply human story of Quaker Service Australia, begun fifty years ago by a small group of people who wanted to help change the world, one step at a time.