Famous Connections
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Conway Hall Ethical Society was connected to both the great and the good of the age. Many came to address the Society at their Sunday and mid week lectures including Bertrand Russell, William Morris, Sidney Webb and the suffragettes Marion Phillips and Marion Holmes.
The Conway Hall Ethical Society archive
As well as historic items, modern material continue to be added to the Conway Hall Ethical Society archive.
Seasons Greetings from the British Humanist Association Archive, 1966
Seasons Greetings from the British Humanist Association Archive, 1966.
South Place pioneering congregation
This colourful diagram of the seating in South Place Chapel from Conway Hall Ethical Society archives is just one of the ways to identify the early members of the pioneering congregation at South Place.
Old London – South Place
Now the location of Finsbury Circus House, (opposite South Place Hotel), this 1820s plan gives a fascinating glimpse into old London by revealing the exact location of South Place Chapel (later, South Place Ethical Society).
The building of South Place Chapel, 1821
In 1821 the congregation of William Johnson Fox were in the process of commissioning the Unitarian Chapel at South Place, Finsbury, which would later become the home of South Place Ethical Society.
Snapshot of the Ethical Movement in 1904
Delving into the British Humanist Association archive, the first surviving minute book of the Union of Ethical Societies (forerunner of the Association) creates an image of a thriving, growing organisation with widespread interest in the Ethical Movement.
A cordial invitation to the young men of Victorian Kentish Town
A cordial invitation to the young men of Victorian Kentish Town from Dr Stanton Coit’s Neighbourhood Guild.
A ‘pleasant evening’ for the Victorian girls of Kentish Town
A ‘pleasant evening’ for the Victorian girls of Kentish Town – Swedish drill, singing and tableaux.