Wikipedia:GLAM/Humanists UK/Events/World Contraception Day

= World Contraception Day =

Humanists have always been at the forefront of campaigns for reproductive rights and access to contraception. Whether risking prosecution for obscenity in the 19th century, or spearheading the World League for Sexual Reform in the 20th, freethinkers have advocated tirelessly over decades for humanist values of reason and compassion to be brought to bear on questions of sex and sexuality.

In this Wikipedia edit-a-thon, we will be highlighting some of the better and lesser-known figures who form such a key part of the history of contraception in the UK – from Alice Vickery to Dora Russell; Charles Bradlaugh to Dorothy Thurtle. Despite this venerable tradition, many of these individuals – and their humanist motivations – are underacknowledged. We want to change that!

Articles to improve

 * Charles Knowlton
 * Dora Russell
 * Dorothy Thurtle
 * Alice Vickery
 * Annie Besant
 * Francis Place
 * Stella Browne
 * Madeleine Simms
 * Teresa Billington-Greig
 * Edith How-Martyn
 * Naomi Mitchison
 * Rose Witcop
 * Claire Rayner
 * Janet Chance
 * Frida Laski
 * Marjory Allen
 * World League for Sexual Reform
 * British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology

Articles to create

 * Workers' Birth Control Group
 * George Drysdale
 * Henry Arthur Allbutt
 * Frances Mabel Huxley
 * The Knowlton Affair
 * Birkett Committee

Useful sources
Creative Commons Search

The Internet Archive

HathiTrust Digital Library

Google Books

LSE Digital Library

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Conway Hall Humanist Library Pamphlet Collection

Relevant categories

 * British birth control activists
 * Birth control in the United Kingdom
 * British social reformers
 * Sex education advocates
 * Methods of birth control‎
 * English humanists
 * British humanists
 * Humanists by nationality (use to find subcategories)