Are you an historian who works on religion or religious sources (broadly defined)? Consider submitting your work to our journal. Guidelines for contributors here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1… Please RT!

Excited about the publication of this essay I co-authored with Ryan Cragun, Abraham Hawley, and Shakir Stephen. We use the GSS to show that atheists and agnostics are likely to share certain beliefs about knowledge and death. Not simply negative identities! academic.oup.com/socrel/advance…

Happening next week from ISHASH! Don't miss this one!

This looks great: early career researchers and scholars outside universities especially welcome: Robert Wedderburn zoo | Dundee City Region Convention Bureau meetdundeecityregion.co.uk/attending/conf…

Tomorrow, Barathy MG from Ashoka University in India will present his work on secularism in late 19th-century India in our webinar series. Everyone is welcome to join! If you are not a member, DM for zoom link and text.

Looking forward to this webinar today! Get in touch if you’d like to join us - I’m happy to share the zoom info. BAVS Postgrads INCSA Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) - please do share!

Happy to be hosting this event later today! Fascinating project.

What a privilege to chat with Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)-ers about one of the periodicals I’ve spent 4+ years thinking about! Edited by Harriet Law, it’s a fascinating example of the Victorian radical and irreligious press, both in form and content.

Tickets now available for the Freethought History Festival (30Aug-1Sep), which I've been planning with Conway Hall & others! Join us for 3 days of panels, screenings & activities exploring the history of humanism, secularism, atheism & the ethical movement conwayhall.org.uk/freethoughthis…

We're pleased to be partnering with Conway Hall for two Explaining Atheism events next month. Join us for 'Between Beliefs' a film Screening featuring the work of Briony Campbell on 15 Sep 2024. Follow the link for info and tickets tinyurl.com/bdhja99n Photo: Briony Campbell

Teachers, are you planning to teach about non-religious worldviews next term? Check out our wide range of FREE resources, to enrich your lesson planning and save you valuable time! Designed by teachers, for teachers. understandinghumanism.org.uk

We've got a fantastic programme of upcoming webinars. including a new book session, the second in our 'Libraries and Archives Show & Tell' series, and a collaborative venture with Nonreligion in a Complex Future bringing historians and social scientists into conversation: …heismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

We - again! - have got a really nice program for the ISHASH Webinar series this fall. The first one is in early October, when Michael Hunter will present and discuss his latest book, on early modern atheism.

Prof. Hunter's book was the topic of this interesting essay in London Review of Books recently, btw. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Hear from Clare Stainthorp, one of the organisers of the Freethought History Fest. Clare, a researcher at Queen Mary University, specialises in 19th-century freethought. Catch her on Sat for ‘Writing Freethought History’ + Sun for our ‘Family Fun Day’. Book: loom.ly/RVC5wwc

You can get a 25% discount on Freethought History Festival tickets across the bank holiday weekend (Friday 23 until end of Monday 26 August) with the discount code FESTFLASH!25 🎟️ Hope you can join us at Conway Hall at the end of the month!