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Ethical Society Lectures

Architecture lecture - poster

Ethical Society Lectures

Conway Hall Ethical Society has been hosting and arranging courses of lectures since the late nineteenth century. Here are come early examples of lecture series on offer between 1890 and 1900.

Book plate

Book plate from inside the 1824-1924 Centenary Souvenir Annual of South Place Ethical Society

A beautiful book plate from inside the 1824-1924 Centenary Souvenir Annual of South Place Ethical Society.

Student Humanist Federation

Conway Hall Ethical Society links

As part of the wider Humanist movement, Conway Hall Ethical Society has always forged links with similar societies.

John Stuart Mill

The Conway Hall Ethical Society archive

As well as historic items, modern material continue to be added to the Conway Hall Ethical Society archive.

Marriage certificate

Nineteenth-century marriages at the Ethical Society

Nineteenth-century marriages at Conway Hall Ethical Society.

A duty of free enquiry

“A duty of free enquiry”

The charismatic William Johnson Fox, Minister of Parliament Court Chapel and South Place Chapel (forerunners of Conway Hall Ethical Society) addressed his radical congregation on 27 March 1842.

BHA seasonal card

Seasons Greetings from the British Humanist Association Archive, 1966

Seasons Greetings from the British Humanist Association Archive, 1966.

note

Hidden note under South Place?

In 1876 A.J. Waterlow discovered a scrap of paper in the hand of William Johnson Fox, Minister of South Place Chapel (later South Place Ethical Society).

South Place pioneering congregation

South Place pioneering congregation

This colourful diagram of the seating in South Place Chapel from Conway Hall Ethical Society archives is just one of the ways to identify the early members of the pioneering congregation at South Place.

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