George Canning (1770-1827) has gone down in history as having served the shortest period as Prime Minister in Great Britain, but he also had another side to his life; he was a Freemason, he fought a duel, and was a … Continue reading →
The new book is in the final stages. It follows on with the themes of my previous book The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry, by examining the evolution of rituals, this time concentrating in England during the early nineteenth … Continue reading →
As many lodges will be celebrating Burns Night soon, I thought I would write a brief biopic of one of my favourite poets. Robert Burns, poet, Scotsman, and Freemason, was born on 25th January, 1759, in Alloway near Ayr in … Continue reading →
Recently, I had a short paper published in the summer (2018) issue of Philalethes: The Journal of Masonic Research & Letters, the paper examining Dr John Theophilus Desaguliers’ poem ‘The Newtonian System of the World’. The poem was published in … Continue reading →
This article appeared in Knight Templar Magazine in November 2013, and was a leader article for a book that I co-wrote with Fred Lomax entitled Freemasonry and Fraternal Societies, which was published the following year. As with the other fraternal … Continue reading →
This article first appeared in Knight Templar Magazine, September, 2012. Freemasonry in England during the Victorian age witnessed a surge of interest in researching the origins of the order and answering questions about its connection with the historical Temple of … Continue reading →
Over the years I’ve been very honoured to have my articles published in many Masonic Magazines, many of which are now available free online. This post is dedicated to an article of mine called ‘Freemasonry and Occultists’ that appeared in … Continue reading →
One of the best online Masonic libraries I’ve found to date is the Count Cagliostro Masonic Library. Seventeen years in the making, this online library gives access to out-of-copyright material in pdf format such as works by Adam Weishaupt, John … Continue reading →
In May 2017 I presented a paper on the Warrington Academy and Freemasonry, to Quatuor Coronati Lodge at Grand Lodge in London, and the paper was subsequently published in the lodge’s Transactions Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Vol.130 (2017). I have recently … Continue reading →
Róbert Péter (General Editor) British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 (5 Vol Set), Routledge, London, 2016. I publish the occasional review on my website, and this particular review was the result of a project suggested by the late John Slifco. John had asked … Continue reading →
