The Society appoints a president each year who is invited to give an address, usually at the time of the annual gathering of the Religious Society of Friends (non-Quakers are welcome). The Society aims to hold one or two regional meetings each year.
Friends Historical Society Presidential Address and AGM 2023
25 November 2023, 2pm
All members of the Friends Historical Society are welcome to attend the Annual General Meeting and following this, the FHS Presidential Address. Both events will be held at Central Manchester Friends Meeting House and hosted on Zoom at 2 pm (BST) on Saturday, 25 November 2023.
This year the FHS Presidential Address will be given by Chris Skidmore, an independent researcher and author of Quakers & their Meeting Houses, Historic England and Liverpool University Press (2021). His lecture will be entitled ‘Henry Finch (1735-1805) – a troubler of Israel’.
Future Meetings
Members and others are invited to contact the Clerk if they are interested in presenting material at a future meeting.