'The Freethinker'

Many years ago, I used to write occasionally for The Freethinker, which described itself as a 'secular humanist monthly' and stood out from the crowd because it was still set by letterpress and contained no photos or images. It was established by G.W. Foote in 1881 and was published without a break until 2014 when it retreated to being an internet-only publication.

My articles were mainly about aspects of freethought history. I am posting scans of some of the articles here. If you have got this far, I hope you enjoy them.
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Forgotten Freethinkers
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Here's a series of articles on forgotten freethinkers:
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• 'Old Chat' (Daniel Chatterton), September 1985
• Martin Boon, October 1985
• Guy Aldred, November 1985
• Diverse Strands (Myles McSweeney, Frederick Lessner, Harry Pollitt, Tom Bell, Tommy Jackson), December 1985 

​Freethought in Fiction

My series of articles on freethought in fiction:

• Workers in the Dawn by George Gissing, July 1987
• Stephen Remarx by James Adderley, August 1987
• The Democracy by Whyte Thorne (Richard Whiteing), September 1987
• Catherine Furze and Clara Hopgood by Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), October 1987
• The Anarchists by John Henry Mackay, November 1987
• The Atheist Shoemaker by Hugh Price Hughes, December 1987

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Later pieces in the Freethinker
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So what we have below is:

• 'Eleanor Boon and the Ladies' Secular Association', May 1988
• '"The Hero of Every Brothel in Britain""' [re William Maccall and Martin Boon], June 1988 
• [as John Pether] 'In Search of the Old East End', September 1988 
• [as John Pether] 'Charles Bradlaugh and his Biographer [Charles Mackay]', November 1988 

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