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Vor 18 Stunden · Annie Besant had married a minister at the age of 18, but the marriage was unhappy and she left him. Her husband retained custody of one of her two children. She became a needleworker and went to Bethnal Green where she met Charles Bradlaugh, a dissenting minister. He was 40 and she was 26. In 1876 he encouraged her to speak publicly about contraception (something that women rarely did) to the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The hall was opened on Sunday 6 March 1881, with speeches from Josiah Gimson, Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. Since then, Leicester Secular Society helped promote new ideas, inviting the advanced thinkers of the day to give lectures in the hall. William Morris gave his famous lecture, ‘Art and Socialism’, in the hall in 1884, and this ...
Vor 2 Tagen · In the case of Watt Hughes’s painting, this uncertainty has fuelled both scientific explanations, referring to the physicist Chaldni’s sound figures and to other musical experiments, Footnote 25 and esoteric readings, as in the book Thought-Forms (1905) by Anne Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater.
Vor einem Tag · Nos 15 and 16 were immediately taken by Murrays of Turnmill Street, who by 1907 had also acquired Nos 13 and 14. No. 29, a four-storey building of 1907, was first occupied by the Farringdon Engineering Co. No. 58 was rebuilt in 1913 as a platechest factory.
Vor 4 Tagen · He joined the society's executive committee in January 1885, and later that year recruited Webb and also Annie Besant, a fine orator.
Vor 2 Tagen · The museums, theatres, and library of this noble charity are very large. A new surgery was added in 1842. The lectures of the present day were established by the great Abernethy, who was elected assistant-surgeon in 1787. PIE CORNER IN 1789. (From a Drawing in Mr. Gardner's Collection.)
Vor 2 Tagen · The statue is a memorial of a brown terrier dog who died in pain during vivisection performed on him before an audience of 60 medical students in 1903, and who was the centre of a big controversy, as Swedish activists had infiltrated the University of London medical lectures to expose what they called illegal vivisection acts. The memorial, unveiled in 1907, also caused controversy, as medical ...
