Learn more about the Ethical movement and the origins of organised humanism in the UK.
Mackenzie Hall is a community space in the village of Brockweir, Gloucestershire, given by Millicent Mackenzie in memory of her […]
Bessie Mabbs was a teacher, school principal, and active member of the Union of Ethical Societies (now Humanists UK), chairing […]
…the smallest experience is sufficient to convince that it is more pleasing, to be at peace than at enmity with […]
I see this kind of love – the empathy that should be common to all living creatures – rather than […]
To have thus assuaged the temper of controversy, to have softened much deep-seated prejudice and to have disposed some of […]
Harry Stopes-Roe was one of the most tireless and dedicated humanist campaigners of the 20th century. Son of the influential […]
The time has arrived for us humans to stop leaning on ideas for a creator god; we should get down […]
Jennie Lee (also known as Baroness Lee of Asheridge) was a Scottish politician and journalist, known for her upfront orating […]
Julia Huxley was a feminist and freethinker, who profoundly influenced a generation of girls who attended the school she founded […]
It lies within our power, if we so desire it, to make the familiar world we inhabit more worthy of […]
With these basic [humanist] beliefs there go commonly two corollaries. First, that virtue is a matter of promoting human well-being, […]
…no child should be made ashamed or uncomfortable on account of his father’s opinions, or lack of opinions, on subjects […]
The Ruskin School Home was founded by socialist writer and teacher [Harry] Bellerby Lowerison (1863–1935) in Norfolk in 1900, following […]
I suggest that the assembly we really want is an act of celebration, rather than worship. There is value in […]
Sophie Bryant was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, feminist, suffragist, teacher, and promoter of moral education. She played a key role in […]
The Universities Tests Act, which ended religious discrimination in admissions and employment at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham […]