Making welcome: Adrian Glamorgan wants more

‘Do they know of us?’

by Adrian Glamorgan 30th October 2026

The British diaspora began only a generation or two before the formation of the Religious Society of Friends. Quakers often travelled along the same sea lanes to lands being wrested away from locals. For a few centuries, Brits and Irish migrants lived in paradox: driven out by inequalities, poverty and clearances at home, they became beneficiaries of imperial conquest overseas. For those who stayed on the rainy isles, and endured the worst of economic cycles and European fascism, after the war these ‘dominions’ became privileged fast tracks to migration.