I’ve always found Masonic symbols on headstones fascinating, and I even wrote a chapter on the changing symbolism on Masonic headstones in my PhD and first book The Genesis of Freemasonry. After a stroll around two prominent cemeteries in the … Continue reading →
My new book Masonic Mosaic is now published; it is my second collection of Masonic essays and is published by Masonica. It’s a beautiful edition and they’ve done a great job at putting the collection together. It includes thirteen essays, … Continue reading →
I was very much honoured to appear on Scott Wolter’s America Unearthed (episode 4, season 4) in the episode entitled The Ripper Unmasked. I gave some information on Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle and examined the symbols on the kerbstones, which I … Continue reading →
A few years ago, I filmed the pilot episode of the mini series ‘Landmark Freemasons’, which aimed to examine historical Masonic personalities such as Elias Ashmole, Christopher Wren and Rudyard Kipling. With the pandemic occurring early last year, production was … Continue reading →
I have some new interviews posted on my YouTube channel that give some insight into my latest book The Rite of Seven Degrees which will be out with Lewis Masonic at the end of the year. This particular interview was … Continue reading →
In his new book, Robert Lomas is in his element with statistics, graphs and projections, all of which he uses to predict how the current pandemic will effect Freemasonry. Indeed, the statistics and graphs reveal how the membership of English … Continue reading →
Way back in February 2018, The UK newspaper The Guardian ran a story entitled ‘Secret Freemasons Should Have no Place in Public Life’. It was a rather sensationalist and negative piece that caused a stir at the time, and … Continue reading →
In my next book, which is due to be published this year, I’ll be exploring the Rite of Seven Degrees, the Masonic rite of engraver Pierre Lambert de Lintot, which flourished in London during the latter eighteenth century. We know … Continue reading →
I have a new academic paper entitled ‘Bram Stoker, Freemasonry and the Byronic Hero’, published in the renowned Romanian Masonic journal Gnosis, Anul VII / nr. 7, (2021), pp.13-32, which can be accessed and downloaded for free at my academia … Continue reading →
Turning the Templar Key, Robert Lomas. Lewis Masonic, paperback, 2020. ISBN: 159233279X When I was first initiated into Freemasonry way back in April 1998, I was presented with a gift by my main proposer, that gift was a book called … Continue reading →
