| Description | The Archive of the British Humanist Association (1888-2007) is held at the Bishopsgate Institute. The Archive is described as including:
"minutes and papers of the Executive Committee of the British Humanist
Association, 1967-2003; minutes and papers of miscellaneous British
Humanist Association committees, including General Purposes Committee,
Political Committee, Education Committee, Finance Committee, Publicity
and Information Services Committee, Youth and Development Committee,
Ceremonies Committee, Broadcasting Committee and the Working Party on
Social Action, 1967-2001; papers regarding 13 Prince of Wales Terrace,
London, 1969-1994; papers from British Humanist Association conferences,
1964-1971; accounts and financial papers of the British Humanist
Association, 1982-2001; miscellaneous papers, ephemera, correspondence
and press cuttings collected by the British Humanist Association on
various subjects, including AIDS, funerals, cults, gender, counselling
in the army, prisons and hospitals, freedom of information, abortion,
blasphemy, pre-embryos, religion, church, reproduction, immigration,
Islam, asylum, science, pseudo-science, religious and moral education
and religious schools, 1952-2007; annual reports of the British Humanist
Association, 1967-1987; British Humanist Association photographs of
individuals, conferences and events, 1967-2005; minidiscs, CDs, audio
tapes of Humanist lectures, contributions to radio and television
programmes and British Humanist Association promotional material,
1980-2007; general, membership and ceremony correspondence of the
British Humanist Association, 1965-2002; correspondence and papers
regarding international humanism and international humanist
organisations, 1992-2002; British Humanist Association press releases,
newsletters and circulars, 1967-2001; papers regarding British Humanist
Association educational activities, 1966-2005; papers regarding British
Humanist Association membership and membership questionnaires,
1992-1998; minutes of the Ethical Union, 1923-1967; minutes and papers
of miscellaneous Ethical Union committees, including General Purposes
Committee, Development Committee and Publications and Publicity
Committee, 1954-1967 Cash book, press cuttings and correspondence concerning the Ethical Union, 1944-1967; minutes, correspondence,
accounts and property papers of the Humanist Trust/Voltaire Lectures
Fund, 1958-1996; minutes of the Union of Ethical Societies, 1904-1946;
minutes and papers of the West London Ethical Society, 1892-1965;
minutes of the Women's Group of the Ethical Movement, 1920-1945;
minutes, papers and photographs of the Ethical Church, 1909-1940;
minutes, papers and correspondence of the Secular Education League,
1907-1964; minutes of the Sheffield Ethical Society, 1903-1934; minutes
of the Young People's Group of the Ethical Movement, 1925-1933; minutes
of the Humanist Counselling Service, 1965-1968; papers and
correspondence concerning the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation,
1999-2001; balance sheets and papers of the Pemberton Publishing
Company, 1994-1997; papers and correspondence of the Humanist
Broadcasting Council, 1959-1963; minutes of the London Young Humanists,
1969-1976; minutes of the Hampstead Ethical Institute, 1906-1926;
minutes of the South London Ethical Society, 1924-1935; minutes of the
City and University of York Humanist Society, 1965-1968; papers
regarding the Lewisham Humanist Group Partnership Scheme, 1993-2001;
papers and minutes of the Humanist Philosopher's Group, 2000-2006;
scrapbook regarding Stanton Coit, 1888-1900; scrapbook and papers
concerning George Edward O'Dell, 1906-1956."
Records of the Rationalist Press Association (a predecessor of the British Humanist Association) are also held, as a seperate collection, at the Bishopsgate Institute.
(Source: contact with Bishopsgate Institute, Dec 07)
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