Learn more about the fascinating figures who have been President of Humanists UK since the role was created in 1918.
Millicent Mackenzie was a pioneering educationist and suffragist, who – alongside her husband, John Stuart Mackenzie – gave significant support […]
…the smallest experience is sufficient to convince that it is more pleasing, to be at peace than at enmity with […]
Sophie Bryant was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, feminist, suffragist, teacher, and promoter of moral education. She played a key role in […]
With these basic [humanist] beliefs there go commonly two corollaries. First, that virtue is a matter of promoting human well-being, […]
Its aim will be to secularise education and make moral training the chief aim of the school life. A great […]
To have thus assuaged the temper of controversy, to have softened much deep-seated prejudice and to have disposed some of […]
The Ruskin School Home was founded by socialist writer and teacher [Harry] Bellerby Lowerison (1863–1935) in Norfolk in 1900, following […]
…no child should be made ashamed or uncomfortable on account of his father’s opinions, or lack of opinions, on subjects […]
The time has arrived for us humans to stop leaning on ideas for a creator god; we should get down […]
I suggest that the assembly we really want is an act of celebration, rather than worship. There is value in […]
I see this kind of love – the empathy that should be common to all living creatures – rather than […]
F.J. Gould was an influential educationist, writer, and humanist, whose tireless work towards secularising education helped to lay the groundwork […]
Girton College at the University of Cambridge has educated and employed a host of remarkable humanists and freethinkers, many of […]
About the moral problem there is nothing mysterious; it is simply the old, old question of how best to live […]
Julia Huxley was a feminist and freethinker, who profoundly influenced a generation of girls who attended the school she founded […]