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2.9. Monkey Love

Obedience, conformity and conditioning. These areas of the mind are slightly cold to Harry Harlow.

Perhaps the image most associated with Quakers is the smiling gentleman in historic clothes on a box of Quaker Oats.

In 1988, the Scrapbook of Sir Nicholas Winton became known to the world when it was featured on BBC television.

The Grave Marker for Benjamin and Sarah Lay recognizes the changing attitudes Quakers have held to slavery.

Priscilla Wakefield (1751 – 1832) was a philanthropist, writer and feminist economist who founded Britian’s first savings bank in 1798.

Ada Salter (1866 – 1942) was a social reformer environmentalist, pacifist and Quaker who became the first female Labour mayor.

John Locke (1632 – 1704) was an English philosopher who believed human ideas are ultimately gained from experience.