Cumbria Humanist Group
Promoting a Positive Caring Outlook for the Non-Religious
Links
(Click on the Links below to access the websites of these organisations, publications and media clips.)
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Humanist Organisations.
National Humanist and Secular Organisations.
Rationalist Association / New Humanist magazine.
Think Humanism. (Try the Quiz!)
International Humanist Groups.
International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).
Local Humanist Groups.
(See also BHA website for Local Groups nationwide.)
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Culture and Media.
A wonderfully hilarious tirade from Marcus Brigstocke, broadcast on Radio 4’s “The Now Show” on 20 July 2007, against the three main monotheistic religions and the havoc they create! (Make sure your computer’s sound system is switched on when you link to this.)
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The BBC website for Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed series “A Brief History of Disbelief” on BBC4 in late 2005. That series alone could justify BBC's retaining BBC4. (Well maybe some of the music “Sessions” programmes also play a part!) Actually there’s no possible case for scrapping BBC 4 – it’s what BBC TV should be about; what BBC2 used to be about – Bronowski and Clark and . . . And Jonathan Miller is certainly in that Renaissance Man league. A campaign for a DVD of the series bore no fruit, but one of our members has a ‘techy toy’ to convert video cassette to digital, so maybe we can produce our own. Strictly for non-profit sharing - goes without saying!
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Conway Hall is a landmark of London's independent intellectual, political and cultural life.
For over one hundred years the Ethical Society had its centre at South Place in the City of London, where it fostered freedom in moral and spiritual life and thought. In order to have a wider range of influence and greater scope for development the Society decided to build a new home in Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury.
Conway Hall is renowned as a hub for free speech and progressive thought. In recent years we have seen on the platform speakers such as Salman Rushdie, Will Self, Tony Benn, and Mary Robinson to name but a few.
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Press.
National Newspapers.
Guardian ( Guardian Religious Affairs )
Local Newspapers in Cumbria.
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
Magazines and Journals.
Also those that are essentially ‘political’ but regularly cover issues of humanism and secularism, often the same journalists: Lucy Mangan’s intelligent humour can be found in both Guardian and New Humanist. Similarly academics and writers such as Laurie Taylor and AC Grayling, both closely associated with humanism and secularism, are widely published in the general media.
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email : info@cumbria-humanists.org.uk
Phone Chris Allen on (01228) 810592 or Iain Paterson on (01768) 881245.