The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, also known as Britain Yearly Meeting (and, until 1995, London Yearly Meeting), is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

The Religious Society of Friends (better known as the Quakers) is a diverse global community. You may have heard about Quakers sitting in silence, waiting for a message from the Holy Spirit. That's a crucial part of how Friends worship—but each Quaker community can, and often does, have its own way of doing things.

George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends in England, recorded that in 1650 “Justice Bennet of Derby first called us Quakers because we bid them tremble at the word of God.” It is likely that the name, originally derisive, was also used because many early Friends, like other religious enthusiasts, themselves ...

The Society of Friends was formed in the 1640s, when religious dissident George Fox began to preach the concept of the “inner light” throughout England. His beliefs spread to the colonies, and eventually to Newport aboard the ship Woodhouse, which arrived with a group of English Friends in 1657.