We hold a variety of #Nelson documents born #otd 1758 #BurnhamThorpe but the strangest has to be 3 hairs found in a collection of papers and letters of #ElizabethFry

Long lives fascinate. Elizabeth Sanderson Hanbury 1793-1901 saw three centuries and four monarchs - #GeorgeIII #GeorgeIV, #WilliamIV and #Victoria. Remembered as a child a 'pretty walk through the corn from Moor Fields to the village of Islington', fought #slavery worked with #ElizabethFry.

My Christmas reading, by Quaker Avril Douglas Opperman, from Dublin about the life of Elizabeth Fry, pioneering social reformer, an extraordinary woman #Quaker #ElizabethFry @daqcfriends.bsky.social #Quakers

Together w/Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland NS & YWCA Halifax, we invite you to join this call2action: to keep funding Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) &
prioritize the health, safety & success of women, girls & gender-diverse persons.
Voice your concern here:
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In this article for The Tablet magazine, I looked at philanthropy, Georgian style, and how churches attempted to reform girls like Ann, a girl from my hometown who inspired my novel, The Low Road, transported to Australia in 1828. #philanthropy #CatholicHistory #ConvictAustralia #ElizabethFry

"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."

⛓️ #ElizabethFry, English prison reformer, social reformer, and Quaker Minister, #DOTD 12 October 1845. #HumanRights

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells. - Elizabeth Fry
#ElizabethFry #prisons