About this Archive

Administrative/biographical history

The Bradlaugh Collection came to Bishopsgate from the National Secular Society and consists of published works by and about Charles Bradlaugh and his activities in the Victorian secular movement. There are also numerous pamphlets by Annie Besant and by Bradlaugh's daughter Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner.

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Married in 1950, Chris and Betty Birch have been involved in political, trade union, and LGBTQ+ activism for over 60 years. Sharing similar interests, they were both Communist Party Members and involved with organisations such as the Aid to Spanish Youth Committee. After the death of his friend, Mark Ashton, Chris became involved in forming the Mark Ashton Memorial Trust, which was created to raise money for individuals living with HIV. The archive includes the truncheon taken from the police by Mark Ashton, correspondence, personal scrapbooks, press cuttings, and various other papers relating to the couples activism.

Bishopsgate Institute

Bradlaugh Library

About this Archive

Administrative/biographical history

Paine, Thomas

1737-1809

Index (formerly Index on Censorship)

Stopes-Roe, Harry Verdon

1924-2014

Humanist Funeral Tribute Archive

Brierley, Tony

(b.1936)

Campbell, Colin Barnsley

Hampstead Humanist Society

Rationalist Association

(b.1935)

Values Education Council

Find More Freethought and Humanism

Ethical Church

Bradlaugh, Charles

Bradlaugh Library

British Humanist Association

Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA)

Hemming, James

Holyoake, George Jacob

Holyoake Library

Munday, Diane

Rationalist Peace Society

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