Show overview
The Quakers in Chichester has published 6 episodes during 2021. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 3 min and 5 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language History show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 4.9 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Jenny.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
S1 Ep 44. Barton Hack, one of the founders of Adelaide in Australia
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.
S1 Ep 66. Ian Serraillier and the Refugee Children
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.
S1 Ep 11. George Fox visits Chichester.
George Fox, expressing the ideas of seekers and radicals, visits in 1655. Researched and read by Michael Woolley.https://chichesterquakers.org.uk/history/
S1 Ep 55. William Smith, the Quaker Mayor
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.
S1 Ep 33. Joseph Lancaster's schools established in Chichester.
Here are the Quakers in the early 19th century getting universal education going for both boys and girls. Michael Woolley tells the tale.
S1 Ep 22. William Penn, did he visit Chichester?
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.