December 16, 2025: Free webinar on Charles Bradlaugh, founder of UK’s National Secular Society
To be hosted by Daniel James Sharp, the editor of The Freethinker, a free webinar will be held later today bringing out the biographical details of Charles Bradlaugh, who founded the United Kingdom’s (UK) National Secular Society (NSS) in 1866.
Register on this link to join the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3rsgawJZQiuArE-9ge7Jyw#/registration
Elected to Northampton’s parliamentary seat in 1880, Bradlaugh stood up for the poor, the marginalised, and the downtrodden; he also supported the decolonisation of Ireland and India. Along with Annie Besant, Bradlaugh was convicted in 1877 for republishing the American physician Charles Knowlton’s book The Fruits of Philosophy, or the Private Companion of Young Married People, which first came out anonymously in the US in 1832.
The webinar’s speaker will be Robert Forder, an NSS Council Member and historian. Forder’s video lecture series on the history of secularism is available via this URL: https://www.secularism.org.uk/new-video-lecture-series-the-ori
The webinar will start today (December 16, 2025) at 7 pm UK time via Zoom. That would be Dec 17, 12:30 AM in India.
This is a partial screenshot of the digital poster of the December 16, 2025, webinar organised by The Freethinker. (Credit: The Freethinker)
For a fuller description of the event, go to this link: https://freethinker.co.uk/2025/09/freethought-history-webinar-6-the-career-and-continuing-relevance-of-charles-bradlaugh-with-bob-forder-4-november-2025/