{"id":155,"date":"2018-01-13T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=155"},"modified":"2018-02-20T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:23:17","slug":"bradlaugh-and-the-early-years-of-the-national-secular-society-1866-1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Bradlaugh and the Early Years of the National Secular Society (1866-1891)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The talk looks again at the maverick Charles Bradlaugh,<em>\u00a0Sledgehammer of a Speaker <\/em>and\u00a0his management skills in creating what was the largest radical as well as secularist organisation in the country; the issues he championed, including his defeats as well as his successes; his long struggle to take his seat\u00a0 in parliament and something of the <em>Fruits of Philosophy<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;Obscenity&#8221; Trial.<\/p>\n<p>Part of all day event &#8220;<em><strong>Celebrating 150 years of the National Secular Society<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\nhosted by the National Secular Society on\u00a0September 3rd\u00a0 2016<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speaker: Jaques Berlinerblau<br \/>\nOther Speakers:\u00a0 Douglas Murray, Raheel Raza, Maajid Nawaz,\u00a0 Safak Pavey, Tehmina Kazi, Keith Porteous Wood, Paul Rowe, Stephen Evans, Judy Audaer.<\/p>\n<p>National Secular Society<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.secularism.org.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talk looks again at the maverick Charles Bradlaugh,\u00a0Sledgehammer of a Speaker and\u00a0his management skills in creating what was the largest radical as well as secularist organisation in the country; the issues he championed, including his defeats as well as his successes; his long struggle to take his seat\u00a0 in parliament and something of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bradlaugh and the Early Years of the National Secular Society (1866-1891)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}