Its offices were shared with the Sunday School Association at Essex Street, on the site of England's first Unitarian church.
The History of Essex Hall, written in 1959 by Mortimer Rowe, the Secretary (i.e. chief executive) of the General Assembly for its first twenty years, claims this was entirely coincidental.
[4] The earliest notable publication was Thomas Belsham's The New Testament in an Improved Version Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's New Translation (1808), which was continued by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association.
In March 1876 Robert Spears resigned from the Association in objection to proposals to publish the works of Theodore Parker.
Spears started the Christian Life as a rival magazine to the London Inquirer, becoming the voice of conservative late Biblical Unitarianism with Samuel Sharpe, till the two publications were merged in July 1929, and ran for a short time as The Inquirer and Christian Life.