Not to play favourites but doing the heritage walk each @humanists.uk #FestivalOfHumanism is just the best
Yesterday, we recorded a special live audience episode of #UnholyHistories with our Vice Presidents @profaliceroberts.bsky.social and @adamrutherford.bsky.social. As you can see, by Alice and Adam's expression, it was a blast 😂. More info ⬇️
As we all head to Bournemouth for the @humanists.uk Humanism in Action day, Festival of Humanism, and AGM (long weekend!) Our Heritage Manager @madeleineog.bsky.social‘s search through the archive for notable historic Dorset Humanists has proved fruitful…
Conway Hall is integral to the history of ethical thinking in the UK - but we need your support to ensure it remains a place where people can come and think together well into the future. Please donate to our Crowdfunder if you’re able! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/BWdqeewn @conwayhall.bsky.social
Tonight! Online! Hearing all about the brilliant feminist & philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill from Dr Helen McCabe. Really excited for this one with @humanists.uk. Beautiful portrait from the @lselibrary.bsky.social collections. Tickets here: humanists.uk/events/in-co...
Really looking forward to speaking at this conference on Thursday, and the programme for tomorrow @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social is so good too! www.eventbrite.com/e/remember-t...
"Remember the Ladies": Women & Revolution Tickets, Multiple dates | Eventbrite
Join us either in person or online for our First Annual Spring Conference!
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Really enjoying recording this podcast with @madeleineog.bsky.social and the first episode on amazing humanist women from history is one to catch!
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 3mo ago'They were rebels, they were heretics' | Episode one of #UnholyHistories is out now on all major podcasting platforms. Follow along so you never miss an episode. unholyhistories.humanists.uk/2489236/follow
Set up ready to sing and celebrate three fascinating women (Eliza Flower, Harriet Martineau & E.J. Troup) with @electricvoice.bsky.social at @conwayhall.bsky.social this eve. Still time to join us if you’re in London (starts at 6.30!) www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
Today is five years since the launch of the Humanist Heritage website @humanists.uk! 🥳 Easily one of the things I'm most proud of and a project that's been endlessly inspirational, educational, & collaborative. So grateful to all the volunteers, archives, experts & others who brought it into being 💝
Join us for an evening of music, readings and free-thinking discussion in the cosy surroundings of our beautiful library as we celebrate cherished composer Eliza Flower and her incredible legacy. 📅 Thursday 30 April 🕒 6:30pm 🎫 https://bit.ly/4mIxHFe
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
Txnewsprincess@txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs the city eyes a $2.6 million cut from the Dallas Public Library system in the next budget, sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg says libraries are more important than ever.
'No one has changed the history of the world more profoundly than the people who, with the self-permission to defy the prohibitive dogmas of their time and place, have broadened the horizon of possibility for others' - @mariapopova.bsky.social www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/18/m... ☀️
The Woman Who Mapped Labrador and Revolutionized the Literature of Exploration
Nothing changes the history of the world more profoundly than changing the landscape of permission and possibility for people — what is possible and permissible for whom in a given culture. A…
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Looking forward to visiting @hhe-humanists.bsky.social tomorrow, not least because I get to talk about the intriguing Hannah Clark, founder of a school in East Grinstead where moral education replaced religious instruction - regularly advertised in @newhumanist.bsky.social from the 1890s
Thanks to generosity of our members, @ishash.bsky.social now hosts a page of teaching resources that bring histories of freethought into cultural and intellectual history, literature and religious studies courses. Check it out! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/teaching-res...
Teaching Resources
This webpage collects syllabi, module outlines, seminar plans, assignment ideas, and classroom activities related to histories of atheism, secularism, and humanism. Materials are from a variety of …
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Of #HumanistHeritage interest: Wheeldon's funeral was described in the press as being 'devoid of Christian ritual' and 'sensational in its simplicity'.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6mo ago#OtD 27 Jan 1866 Alice Wheeldon, British suffragette, socialist and anti-war activist was born in Derby. Later framed by MI5 and jailed for 10 years for her opposition to World War I and conscription. Her health was damaged and she died after release stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9900...
Pure joy. What a brilliant group of people @electricvoice.bsky.social are and what an incredible community they create in everything they do 👏🏻 @conwayhall.bsky.social
En route to London for Winter Carols by Candlelight @conwayhall.bsky.social 🕯️ Especially excited to hear @electricvoice.bsky.social's reworkings of songs from the ethical societies' hymn books 💝
I wrote this for The Skeptic about the ever intriguing William M. Knox and his (often hilarious) lambasting of the claims of spiritualists in a pamphlet of 1892. www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/11/a-fo...
A forgotten sceptic: William M. Knox, the one-eyed atheist of Belfast - The Skeptic
Writing in the late 1800s, Irish atheist William M. Knox took aim at the emerging trend of spiritualism, séances, and communicating with the dead
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I am so excited for tomorrow evening's @humanists.uk event with Anthony Pinn and SI Martin - two incredible thinkers, great speakers, and also lovely human beings humanists.uk/events/black...
Black Humanism: Anthony Pinn and SI Martin in conversation
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May Seaton-Tiedeman, tireless campaigner for divorce law reform and leading figure in the Ethical Union @humanists.uk, died #OnThisDay 1948. heritage.humanists.uk/may-seaton-t...
Really looking forward to this tonight with @humanists.uk. So much to explore, and such a good panel to do it with - chaired by the inimitable @alavarij.bsky.social. Still time to join us! 🎟️ humanists.uk/events/explo...
Beyond Belief | Exploring India's Humanist Heritage
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#OtD 28 Jul 1985 Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was launched at a meeting at @ConwayHall in London, UK. Its dedication to "physical and ideological opposition" to fascism would see it drive numerous far-right groups off the streets. This is a short history: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1002...
Perpetually inspired by the great minds behind (and within) the Our Subversive Voice project. Always a joy to hear South Place/ @conwayhall.bsky.social get a shout out too 📢
Another truly great @humanists.uk Convention 💜 Inspiring talks, the very loveliest people, and - of course - #HumanistHeritage aplenty
