{"id":278,"date":"2018-02-13T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=278"},"modified":"2018-02-13T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:22:17","slug":"annie-besants-neo-malthusian-passion-international-conference-on-annie-besant-1847-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"ANNIE BESANT\u2019S NEO-MALTHUSIAN PASSION, International Conference on Annie Besant (1847-1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Besant&#8217;s Passion for neo-Malthusianism belongs to her life in the radical secular movement, well before she became a Theosophist; and while she remained on good terms with some of her old radical, secular and neo-Malthusian colleagues, she soundly repudiated their ideology. Nevertheless Annie Besant&#8217;s time as a radical-secularist and neo-Malthusian is not unimportant; and the battle she fought, culminating in her trial at Queens Bench, alongside Charles Bradlaugh for re-publishing\u00a0 the birth control pamphlet <em>The Fruits of Philosophy,<\/em> is an historical landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the two day International Conference on Annie Besant (1847-1933) chaired by<strong>\u00a0Dr Muriel P\u00e9castaing-Boissi\u00e8re,<\/strong><br \/>\nheld on 30th September and 1st October 2017<br \/>\nat The Theosophical Society of England<br \/>\n50 Gloucester Place,<br \/>\nLondon W1U 8EA<\/p>\n<p>Further details about all the speakers, contact the<br \/>\ntheosophicalsociety.org.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Besant&#8217;s Passion for neo-Malthusianism belongs to her life in the radical secular movement, well before she became a Theosophist; and while she remained on good terms with some of her old radical, secular and neo-Malthusian colleagues, she soundly repudiated their ideology. Nevertheless Annie Besant&#8217;s time as a radical-secularist and neo-Malthusian is not unimportant; and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ANNIE BESANT\u2019S NEO-MALTHUSIAN PASSION, International Conference on Annie Besant (1847-1933)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"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\/278"}],"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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}