In his 2023 Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture, Mike Nellis argued that ostensibly progressive penal reforms in England and Wales over the past 40 years have failed to achieve their hoped for goals, and an ever more punitive penal system continues both to expand and deteriorate. He raised the questions: Is

The ninth Bristol Annual Peace Lecture was given by Ros Martin on 5 March 2022. Ros attends Frenchay Meeting. Rather than offering a formal lecture, she presented her ‘blended’ audience with a moving performance of her poetry, accompanied by visual images and a beautiful soundscape from local Cameroonian musician Alphonse

The Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture 2021: Can war be abolished? Britain’s role in working for world peace, took place online in spring this year with Fabian Hamilton, Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Peace and Disarmament and Paul Ingram, Quaker and ex director of the British American Security Information council

The lecture was given by Dr Stuart Parkinson, Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility It took place in March 2019 as one in a series of annual Peace Lectures organised by Bristol Quakers.  Lecture topics have covered a variety of aspects of Peace with this being the first to provide