Category: News
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AGM 2025
Thanks to all of you who came to our AGM on Saturday 19th July and joined us for the meal at Toot afterwards. Our committee is unchanged from last year […]
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May and June News
We’ve had a great run up to our summer break this year, with two fantastic and very well attended talks. Michael Marshall spoke to us in May about how to […]
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15 Years of Plymouth Humanists
This year marks the 15th anniversary of Plymouth Humanists. We’ve achieved a great deal over that time. We organised over 100 talks on very varied topics, ranging from the works […]
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February Events
February was a busy time for us. To start off the month we saw the Danish film ‘The Girl with the Needle’, a beautifully filmed but disturbing story. Later in […]
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December ’24 Events
As is traditional, we had our Christmas Buffet at the beginning of the month in the Fortescue, which was well attended, and also a few outings to see films at […]
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Charles Bradlaugh and the ‘Devonport Affair’
Charles Bradlaugh was a leading 19th century secularist. He founded the National Secular Society, worked tirelessly to oppose religious privilege and promote atheism, and with his friend, feminist and socialist, […]
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Monday’s violence in Plymouth
Hopefully many of you will have already seen Humanists UK’s statement about the recent outbreak of far-right violence targeting minority communities in the UK. Here’s the link https://humanists.uk/2024/08/05/humanists-uk-condemns-far-right-violence/ We completely endorse […]
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Election 24 – Local candidates position on humanist issues
In the run up to the election on July 4th, Humanists UK have been analysing the party’s manifestos for their implications for key humanist campaigns. They have a page on […]
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What you think you know about decarbonisation is probably wrong
In advance of her talk to us in May (see details under the Events tab), Zion Lights has written this article for us outlining her arguments on decarbonisation of our […]
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An opportunity for some activism
The government is again proposing to allow new faith schools, even though completely state funded, to select 100% of their pupils based on their parents’ religion (as if the current […]