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Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891)
Charles Bradlaugh was a leading freethinker, secularist, and founder of the National Secular Society. His efforts to take his seat in Parliament as elected MP for Northampton led to a protracted...
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C.K. Ogden (1889-1957)
If he had ever worshipped at any shrine, it would have been one illumined with the flame of pure intellect. I think that the search for and pursuit of knowledge and scholarship was the dominant motive...
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Atheist Charles Southwell was imprisoned in Bristol Gaol for blasphemous libel in 1842. Southwell had written an article in his periodical, the Oracle of Reason, criticising the Bible. For this he was...
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Blackfriars Rotunda
Architectural view of the Surrey Rotunda, Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Blackfriars Road, London. Wellcome Collection From its origins in 1787, the Blackfriars Rotunda was associated with learning and...
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.Bertrand Russell, What I Believe (1925) One of the...
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Beacon Hill School
Telegraph House stood on the West Sussex Downs, very near to the highest point called Beacon Hill… It stood out clean and white against a background of blue sky and cloud and the yellow green of the...
View ArticleAnthony Collins (1676-1729)
Is being rewarded for maintaining certain articles as matters of faith, and being punished, or suffering for opposing them, proper to produce a free and impartial use of our judgements, in relation to...
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Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.Annie Besant Annie Besant was a socialist, activist, and champion of human freedom,...
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Agnostics Adoption Society
From the outset IAS aimed to have an open approach to prospective adopters irrespective of their race, religion and creed, and to find homes for all children in need.Mary James, former director of the...
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Adam Duff O’Toole (d. 1328)
Adam Duff O’Toole (Adam Dubh Ó Tuathail) was a reputed heretic, who was burned at the stake for his denials of key Christian doctrines (including the Trinity, the virgin birth, resurrection, and the...
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