by Jo Hodgkin | Jun 9, 2023 | Quakers in Love
Gossip gets a bad press – unfairly, in my opinion. It’s one of the things I miss from my years of living in a small rural community. And if we want to enter the lives of people who lived in the past, we need to listen in on their gossip when we can. Nihil...
by Jo Hodgkin | Mar 6, 2023 | Quakers in Love
A few days ago a friend sent me a photograph of a small watercolour, painted almost 200 years ago. He wrote ‘I have been given a floral watercolour miniature from my aunt Rachel’s house on which she noted on the back that it was painted by Sarah Rickman in 1830....
by Jo Hodgkin | Feb 26, 2023 | Quakers in Love
November 27th 2022: an unlikely gathering took place in Lordship Rec, a park in Tottenham, North London, organised by the wonderful group of people who are Tottenham Clouds. About thirty people had joined to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of a quiet man...
by Jo Hodgkin | Feb 24, 2023 | Quakers in Love
When young Thomas Rickman boarded the London to Liverpool coach on a dark December morning 1807, he faced an instant dilemma. What words should he use? Did he greet his fellow travellers as ‘you’? Or ‘thee’ and ‘thou’? His allegiance to the Society of Friends dictated...
