British Museum - Freemasonry Matters

Advanced Degrees by W.Bro. J.S.M. WARD

14th November 2018

In attempting to give an outline sketch of the various degrees in Freemasonry in a book of this description, I am faced by many difficulties, not the…

The Early Artists of Grand Lodge

26th November 2017

In 2017, The United Grand Lodge of England appointed an Artist in Residence, the South African artist Jacques Viljoen, 28, who has a background in both classical painting and contemporary art. There have been many artists who have graced the annals of Freemasonry.

A Collection of Masonic Bookplates or Ex-Libris by Brother Jens Rusch

15th August 2017

A Collection of Masonic Bookplates or Ex-Libris by Brother Jens Rusch

Pilgrimage of Perfection by William Boude (1526)

19th September 2016

The earliest known use of the word “Freemasonry” in a printed book, is in a small work by William Boude, published in 1526

The “Free” In Freemasonry

18th September 2016

WHY IS IT THAT OUR Fraternity bears the name “Freemasonry” instead of “Masonry”? Why the “free” in it? Far back in the Middle Ages a freemason was the name of a builder who could design buildings as well as construct them. He was what we should now call an architect.

A model of King Solomon’s Temple

29th July 201718th June 2016

T is not a little remarkable that the two cardinal epochs in English Freemasonry were associated with the appearance in London of Models of the Temple of Jerusalem. At the first epoch, that of the Revival of Freemasonry, the Model ascribed to Councillor Schott had arrived in London, and was on exhibition in 1723 and 1730

FREEMASONRY IN THE EARLY 1600 AND 1700

17th August 201713th June 2016

There is such an abundance of evidence in proof of the continuity of Freemasonry during the period selected, that it is only necessary to study the special records of the old Lodges, happily still preserved, the Rolls of the “Old Charges”, and especially the extant minutes of the Masons’ Company of London, to be assured that the Freemasons of the present day are the lineal descendants of the operative builders, who in the 17th century, and earlier, admitted speculative or non-professional members.