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Barralet v Attorney-General (1980)
The 1980 High Court case in which the South Place Ethical Society, owner of Conway Hall, won back its charitable status by being told it was not religious, opening the way for the British Humanist Association to become a charity and marking a new line in law between religion and humanist belief.
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Michael Foot (1913–2010)
Labour leader, journalist, and author who was a member and Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association.
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From the archives: Humanism in Scotland (1983)
In 1983 Nigel Bruce, chairman of the Scottish Humanist Council, explained to readers of the BHA’s Humanist News why Scotland needed a humanist body of its own. His article, reproduced here, is the clearest statement of the case made six years before the Humanist Society of Scotland was founded.
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Joseph Reeves (1888–1969)
Humanism is on the march. In a world of conflict and frightening menaces we are an integral part of the […]
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Millicent Mackenzie (1863-1942)
Millicent Mackenzie was a pioneering educationist and suffragist, who – alongside her husband, John Stuart Mackenzie – gave significant support […]
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From the archives: Wider Horizons
I suggest that the assembly we really want is an act of celebration, rather than worship. There is value in […]
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National Education League
…no child should be made ashamed or uncomfortable on account of his father’s opinions, or lack of opinions, on subjects […]
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Humanists UK Campaigns
While much of the Humanist Heritage website looks back to the earlier years of the organised humanist movement, recent decades […]
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Universities Tests Act
The Universities Tests Act, which ended religious discrimination in admissions and employment at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham […]
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Cambridge Heretics
The gist of heresy is free personal choice in act, and specially in thought – the rejection of traditional faiths […]
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Social Morality Council
Without this mutual trust and dependability amongst people who differ radically, there cannot be political and religious freedom. H.J. Blackham […]
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First International Moral Education Congress
To have thus assuaged the temper of controversy, to have softened much deep-seated prejudice and to have disposed some of […]
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Moral Instruction League
Its aim will be to secularise education and make moral training the chief aim of the school life. A great […]