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When: Monday 15 July, 7.30pmWhere: Online via Zoom – link here The AGM this is going to be a slightly different affair than usual. We plan to review the year just gone and our finances, as always, but this meeting will also have a sadder function. With some of the committee standing down and no one… Read more »

When: Wednesday 11 October at 2.30 pm Where: United Reform Church, Widmore Road, Bromley, BR1 1RY We will be discussing “What Humanists Would Like To See in Party Manifestoes For The Forthcoming Elections.” At the time of the BHG meeting all the parties taking part in the election will have published their manifestoes so it will be possible… Read more »

Friends of Nunhead Cemetery had their biggest event of this year – Nunhead Cemetery Open Day – on May 18th. Like over the past few years, we had a book stall and information desk there. As usual, David Lewis and his family set up the book stall and sold many books, jigsaws and even some… Read more »

Black free-thinkers, atheists and humanists – a talk from Audrey Simmons Our May 22nd meeting was a fascinating look at a number of black intellectuals of the 19th and 20th centuries who were social reformers, religious sceptics and civil rights activists.  They included novelists, essayists, poets, politicians, historians, musicians and various artists. All faced up to racial bigotry… Read more »

We had a smaller than usual group for our annual Ethical Dilemmas last month. As such we abandoned our usual method of writing and putting dilemmas in a hat, to be picked out by the chair, and instead had a freer and more wide-ranging discussion, letting it go where it would. Topics included reflecting on… Read more »