12 February is Darwin Day! Learn more about the humanists who influenced, or were influenced by, the life and legacy of Charles Darwin.
…life itself offers enough explanation for living; and believing our existence to finish with death, we naturally make the most […]
Every movement requires its handful of pioneers who are prepared to stand up and be counted — to be abused, […]
This Society has for its object the promotion of right conduct on a purely natural and human basis and the […]
Bessie Braddock was a trade union activist and politician, who devoted her life to improving the lives of others. She […]
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for the recognition of human rights, without distinction of […]
Life is a wonderful privilege. It imposes great duties. It demands the fulfilment of great tasks and the realisation of […]
For earth is not as though thou ne’er hadst been. Constance Naden, ‘The Pantheist’s Song of Immortality’ (1881) Birmingham’s Key […]
Humanism involves not just the deletion of God from moral thought, but the development of humanity on a rational and […]
The Ruskin School Home was founded by socialist writer and teacher [Harry] Bellerby Lowerison (1863–1935) in Norfolk in 1900, following […]
If living does not give value, wisdom and meaning to life, then there is no sense in living at all. […]