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10 April 2018: The Society's Secular Hall Summer Events Programme (April - July 2018) can now be downloaded here. Includes talks by by Greg Scorzo on "Men, Women, and Sexual Etiquette After #Metoo" and "Why have a Mayor" by Leicester's Mayor, Peter Soulsby.

28 February 2018: Spring edition of Leicester Secularist (No.77)) - Statue to Secular Society member Alice Hawkins unveiled, A Defender of the Heathens, Daring Rationalists of Baghdad, Chomsky, Religions Undue Influence, Compassion for the Dark Side, Tribute to Victorian Blasphemer - these and many other articles in 16 pages of news, comment and reviews from LSS.

DARWIN DAY LECTURE - SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11th 6.30pm - Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby, will examine an evolutionary functional analysis to explore the malevolent and benevolent side of human nature and how cultivating the evolved motives for caring can address our dark side.

28 January: The statue of Alice Hawkins – who led the women’s suffrage movement in Leicester in the early 1900s and was a member of the Society – will be unveiled on Sunday 4 February in Leicester’s new market square at a public event starting at 2pm. Secular Hall will be open from 1pm to allow marchers to leave bags / coats etc. and we will leave the Hall at 1-50pm with the banner. You can find out more about Alice here.

3 January 2018: The Society's Secular Hall Spring Events Programme (January - April 2018) can now be downloaded here. Includes talks on apostasy, the secular movement in Iraq and a talk from Leicestershire's Police Commissioner..

24 December 2017: Mo Abbas as President of the Society has issued a response to the Archbishop of Canterbury's claim the CofE Schools provide a better education that can be read here.

20 November 2017: New President of Leicester Secular Society elected -Mohammed (Mo) Abbas Press Release

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