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It's our 128th birthday today 🎉💃🥳 We held our first board meeting #OnThisDay in 1896, and we've been campaigning for a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail ever since. Want to know more? #HumanistHeritage ⬇️ heritage.humanists.uk
@nicholaraihani @andrewcopson @theAliceRoberts Great to hear our former patron, the British philosopher and humanist Bertrand Russell get an honourable mention during the broadcast, too. You can find out more about his humanist beliefs on #HumanistHeritage heritage.humanists.uk/bertrand-russe…
'Separate Development? Out of the closet, into the ghetto' was a talk given by Maureen Duffy on 17 March 1980 for the Gay Humanist Group (now LGBT Humanists!). Read more about Maureen this #LesbianVisibilityWeek on #HumanistHeritage. heritage.humanists.uk/from-the-archi…
@ConwayHall @HumanismEdu The tour was created in partnership with Conway Hall Ethical Society and made possible by @HeritageFundUK. We hope you enjoy it. We're excited to make the rich and diverse history of #HumanistHeritage available to everyone, everywhere!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, our planned tour of Bishopsgate Institute tour has been postponed, and instead, we are meeting at Conway Hall to explore #HumanistHeritage. Registered attendees have been notified, but we're posting on here just in case! humanists.uk/events/conway-…
We just launched our groundbreaking virtual tour of @ConwayHall – one of only two surviving buildings in the UK built by and for the non-religious. Designed for schools but accessible to everyone, the interactive tour brings #HumanistHeritage to life🧵 humanists.uk/2024/04/17/ope…
'If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?' The words that contributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley's expulsion from University College Oxford. Fascinating #HumanistHeritage!
'If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?' The words that contributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley's expulsion from University College Oxford. Fascinating #HumanistHeritage!
Extremely radical and in direct contradiction to the teachings of Oxford, the pamphlet led to Shelley’s expulsion and the relationship with his family was also damaged and would never properly recover. #HumanistHeritage heritage.humanists.uk/percy-bysshe-s…
Fellow women's rights campaigner said Wolstenholme Elmy's work was based on 'purely human and natural ethics, and not theology,' and this was responsible for her 'enthusiasm for justice'. #HumanistHeritage
You can learn more about Dora Russell's incredible life on the #HumanistHeritage website heritage.humanists.uk/dora-russell/
Wolstenholme Elmy’s campaigning efforts helped to usher in significant pieces of legislation, including The Married Women’s Property Act of 1882, the Guardianship of Infants Act of 1886, and the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the same year. #HumanistHeritage
In celebration of our 45th anniversary in 2024, the #HumanistHeritage website is expanding to include even more LGBT history. This has been made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund project Humanist Heritage: Doers, Dreamers, Place Makers. #LGBTHumanists45
She was also the first woman to speak publicly about marital rape, and spent over five decades championing humane, progressive reform. A fascinating and inspirational figure in our shared #HumanistHeritage.
When Albert was executed in 1887, Lucy Parsons achieved ‘secular sainthood by virtue of her widowhood’, but she was also known until her own death in 1942 ‘as an orator of considerable strength and power and as a fighter for free speech and free assembly.’ #HumanistHeritage
Lucy Parsons was an anarchist, activist, and freethinker, born in Virginia in 1851 to an enslaved woman. Her marriage to Albert Parsons saw them both champion socialism, anarchism, and workers’ rights. #HumanistHeritage
For decades, humanists have suffered and protested so-called 'conversion therapy', which as of March 2024 remains legal in the UK. Here's a brief history of @LGBTHumanistsUK's campaigning, spanning 45 years. #HumanistHeritage heritage.humanists.uk/article/fighti…
For decades, humanists have suffered and protested so-called 'conversion therapy', which as of March 2024 remains legal in the UK. Here's a brief history of @LGBTHumanistsUK's campaigning, spanning 45 years. #HumanistHeritage heritage.humanists.uk/article/fighti…
But still, as W.E.B. Du Bois would later write: 'The Universal Races Congress was great because it marked the first time in the history of mankind when a world congress dared openly and explicitly to take its stand on the platform of human equality.' #HumanistHeritage
It's heartening to think that humanists like Gustav Spiller (who was born #OnThisDay 1864), were organising events like this 113 years ago. But, of course, the onset of the two world wars meant that the first conference was also the last – a tragedy. #HumanistHeritage
The event was more than just an assembly; it was a historic moment of convergence for individuals, committed to forging a world marked by greater understanding, cooperation, and peace among different cultures. #HumanistHeritage