Wikipedia:GLAM/Humanists UK/Events/Banned Books Week
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Where? | Online, everywhere! |
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When? | Sunday 27 September 13.00 - 17.00 |
Contact | user:Madeleineog / madeleine@humanists.uk |
Cost | Free |
Dashboard | Banned Books Week |
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About the event
[edit]In honour of Banned Books Week, this Wikithon will focus on improving the representation of humanists, atheists, and secularists in the history of literary and press freedom.
Drawing on Humanists UK’s Humanist Heritage project, we will create, edit, and add to Wikipedia entries relating to press freedom, highlighting the contributions of humanists and freethinkers. Learn more about the fascinating history of campaigns for press freedom whilst developing your digital skills and learning how to edit Wikipedia.
Both beginners and more experienced editors are welcome to join in.
Useful sources
[edit]Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Conway Hall Humanist Library Pamphlet Collection
Articles to create or improve
[edit]Articles to improve
[edit]Article | Relevance |
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Thomas Aikenhead | The last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy |
Peter Annet | An early freethinker |
Thomas Paine | 'My country is the world and my religion is to do good' |
William Johnson Fox | A champion of religious and press freedom, important in the history of South Place Ethical Society |
Richard Carlile | Along with many others, prosecuted and imprisoned on charges of blasphemous libel |
Collet Dobson Collet | Radical, freethinker, and campaigner against newspaper taxation |
Henry Hetherington | A devoted champion of the free press |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Expelled from university for an atheist pamphlet |
Eliza Sharples | An oft forgotten but fearless freethought lecturer and editor |
Edward Truelove | Radical publisher and humanist |
Matilda Roalfe | Prosecuted for selling blasphemous literature; a vigorous defender of her right to do so |
Charles Southwell | Editor and publisher |
George Jacob Holyoake | Arrested in 1842 for suggesting the deity be put on half pay |
Charles Bradlaugh | Fought for the right to affirm, rather than swear a religious oath in Parliament and court |
Charles Watts (secularist) | Prominent freethought lecturer, writer, and publisher |
Annie Besant | Prosecuted alongside Charles Bradlaugh for publishing The Fruits of Philosophy, advocating birth control |
Charles Albert Watts | Founder of journal Watts's Literary Guide, which became the New Humanist magazine |
John William Gott | The last person in Britain to be imprisoned for blasphemy |
Margaret Knight (psychologist) | Noted for a series of broadcasts advocating education free of religious influence |
Francis Williams, Baron Francis-Williams | Editor, author, and Controller of Press Censorship and News at the Ministry of Information |
James Kirkup | Prosecuted alongside the editors of Gay News for publishing his poem 'The Love that Dares to Speak its Name' |
Ephraim Chambers | Encyclopedist whose self-penned epitaph declared him 'a Man / Who thinks himself bound to all Offices of Humanity' |
John Baskerville | Printer who proclaimed 'a Hearty Contempt for all Superstition' |
Whitehouse v Lemon | The court case surrounding Kirkup's poem 'The Love that Dares to Speak its Name' |
LGBT Humanists UK | Founded as the Gay Humanist Group in response to the above prosecution of Gay News for blasphemous libel |
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury | A former patron of Humanists UK, involved in the abolition of blasphemous libel laws |
Defamation of religion and the United Nations | The history of defining the 'defamation of religion' as a human rights violation |
Blasphemous libel | The past and present of blasphemous libel as a criminal offence |
Results
[edit]Headline stats from the Outreach Dashboard: 29 Articles Edited, 71 Total Edits, 2.87K Words Added, 20 References Added, and 1.71K Article Views over the following three days.
Articles improved
[edit]- Susannah Wright
- Austin Holyoake
- Emma Martin (socialist)
- Henry Hetherington
- Edward Truelove
- Matilda Roalfe
- The Freewoman
Participants
[edit]- User:Etstoo
- User:Livy 303
- User:Michellehoughwiki
- User:Oilmillstudios
- User:Katharineamy
- User:PoppaeRollo
- User:Rachelridealgh1
- User:NicZuppardi
- User:Fionaeashley
- User:HeritageRLR
- User:OnlyColbert