1288806 Leicester Secular Hall is a Grade II listed building in Leicester, England. It was built in 1881 for the city's Secular Society. The Leicester Secular...
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Leicester Secular Society is the world's oldest Secular Society. It meets at its headquarters, the Leicester Secular Hall in the centre of Leicester, England...
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often denied the use of speaking halls. It was not until 1881 that Leicester Secular Hall was opened. The second half of the 19th century also witnessed the...
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East Grinstead), Blackwell (Lakeland Arts Trust, Windermere), Leicester Secular Hall and Leighton House (London Borough of Kensington). His ceramics...
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modern secular movement coalesced around Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh and their intellectual circle. The first secular society, the Leicester Secular Society...
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(2022). The Secular Hall: A History. Leicester: Leicester Pioneer Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780955282577. Leicester Postal Handbook. Leicester: Ward & Son....
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Greyfriars, Leicester, was a friary of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans, established on the west side of Leicester by 1250, and...
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List of irreligious organizations (redirect from List of secular organizations)
and the National Secular Society. Of these, Leicester Secular Society has particular claim to fame in being the world's oldest secular society, founded...
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Secular Society, Bradlaugh addressed Edinburgh Secular Society, and Robertson also gave addresses at the Leicester Secular Society (the first secular...
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Secular Union, which remained active until 1884. On 6 March 1881, Holyoake was a speaker at the opening of Leicester Secular Society's Secular Hall in...
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Westminster Palace, built by William Rufus as a setting for secular royal events. Even ground floor halls were increasingly built of stone as the material became...
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Catholic churches in greater Leicester, in Leicestershire, England, which corresponds to the area of the Deanery of Leicester in terms of Catholic governance...
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Ernest Gimson (category Architects from Leicester)
1885. Aged 19, he attended a lecture on 'Art and Socialism' at the Leicester Secular Society given by the leader of the Arts and Crafts revival in Victorian...
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father, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, had previously founded a college of secular canons in Leicester, known as The College of St Mary de Castro...
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Tollerton, Nottinghamshire (section Tollerton Hall)
upwards, but by 1969 it had opened its doors to secular students. It closed in 1986, leaving the hall as a corporate HQ until June 2017, when it was bought...
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University of Leicester. Retrieved 6 December 2018. Warzynski, Peter A. (23 May 2014). "Richard III: Leicester wins the battle of the bones". Leicester Mercury...
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St Mary's College, Oxford (redirect from Frewin Hall)
by right. Therefore, in 1421, at a meeting of the Augustinian order in Leicester, a petition was sent to King Henry V to found a college for the order...
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The Islamic Foundation (redirect from The Islamic Foundation, Leicester (UK))
to Leicester. It built a 10-acre campus, naming its buildings after key Islamist thinkers: Hassan al-Banna Hall, ibn Taimiyya Block and Maududi Hall etc...
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Charles Bradlaugh (category People associated with Conway Hall Ethical Society)
March 1881 he spoke at the opening of Leicester Secular Society's new Secular Hall in Humberstone Gate, Leicester. The other speakers were George Jacob...
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March 1881 she spoke at the opening of Leicester Secular Society's new Secular Hall in Humberstone Gate, Leicester. The other speakers were George Jacob...
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on Leicester Tigers' 'explosive' new signing Tomiwa Agbongbon". 27 November 2021. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Palace of Beaulieu. New Hall School...
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"regular mongrel affair" while Turnor described it as the "last great secular building of the Gothic Revival". The Government Art Collection contains...
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practice in ancient letter writing, even for the biblical writers. One of the secular peculiarities of the Epistle to Titus is the reference to the Epimenides...
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John Stott (category Alumni of Ridley Hall, Cambridge)
shape courses and programmes communicating the Christian faith into a secular context. He was regularly accompanied by a leading paediatrician, John...
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Palace of Westminster (redirect from St Stephen's Hall)
increased progressively; upon its completion in 1858 it was the tallest secular building in the world. At base of the tower is the Sovereign's Entrance...
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absolute government requirements involving religious observances; the Leicester Secular Society was founded in 1851. Bradlaugh's 1880 election to Parliament...
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Nicholas (1984). The Early History of the Church of Canterbury. Leicester: Leicester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7185-1182-1. Brooks, Nicholas (1992)...
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a victory described by Tim Clarkson as "her greatest triumph". In 918 Leicester surrendered without a fight. Shortly afterwards the Viking leaders of...
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John of Gaunt (category Earls of Leicester (1265 creation))
rest of the Lancaster property when Blanche's sister Maud, Countess of Leicester (married to William V, Count of Hainaut), died without issue on 10 April...
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Harriet Law (category People associated with Conway Hall Ethical Society)
March 1881 she spoke at the opening of Leicester Secular Society's new Secular Hall in Humberstone Gate, Leicester. The other speakers were George Jacob...
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