
What is Humanism?
This trial leaflet from the BHA’s archive demonstrates the continuity of the Association’s message.

A cordial invitation to the young men of Victorian Kentish Town
A cordial invitation to the young men of Victorian Kentish Town from Dr Stanton Coit’s Neighbourhood Guild.

A ‘pleasant evening’ for the Victorian girls of Kentish Town
A ‘pleasant evening’ for the Victorian girls of Kentish Town – Swedish drill, singing and tableaux.

A young Doctor Stanton Coit
The photographs show a young Doctor Stanton Coit on holiday with friends on the French coast in 1889.

Joint Committee
In late 1919, the Union of Ethical Societies appointed representatives of South Place Ethical Society, the Free Religious Movement and the Union to form a Joint Committee to ‘consider and report as to the lines upon which it would be desirable to call a conference of Modern Religious Thinkers’.

Dinner in memory of Charles Bradlaugh
This photograph was taken at a dinner in memory Charles Bradlaugh, founder of the National Secular Society, in c.1910.

Golden rules of human behaviour
The ‘golden rules’ of human behaviour and are central concepts in humanism.

An end to Belief?
Ludovic Kennedy explored the idea of belief and a Christian afterlife in 1984.