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...

Really enjoying recording this podcast with @madeleineog.bsky.social and the first episode on amazing humanist women from history is one to catch!

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:

'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... ☀️

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...

Of #HumanistHeritage interest: Wheeldon's funeral was described in the press as being 'devoid of Christian ritual' and 'sensational in its simplicity'.

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...

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...

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...

#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 📢

#OtD 20 Jun 1912 Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist-feminist, atheist, poet and free-thinker, died at the age of 45. Two thousand attended the funeral at Waldheim cemetery where she was buried next to the Haymarket Martyrs stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9285...

Another truly great @humanists.uk Convention 💜 Inspiring talks, the very loveliest people, and - of course - #HumanistHeritage aplenty