exploration party

Freemasonry today

Hundreds of young people descended on Freemasons’ Hall when it hosted the launch party of a kids’ TV show set in an English boarding school….

Freemasonry: Lyrics of Masonic Songs

Edward VII (1841 1910), King of Great Britain and Ireland

Festive Board Eternal Father Eternal father, strong to save Whose arms hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep It’s own appointed…

the first entente cordiale

Freemasonry today

When England took control of Mauritius in 1810, first British governor and Freemason Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar brought unity to the island, writes Mary…

A.G.Mackey – Selected Writings – Royal and Select

Mackey royal select

During research I was doing into the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem I came across a book in the George Holden library at the Solent Masonic Centre at Freshwater, Isle of Wight called the Book of the Chapter and printed in the United States in 1856, the Author being the famous American Masonic historian Albert Mackey MD. The book had been part of the collection of the Bombay Masonic Library in the latter half of the 19th century.

City stories

Freemasonry today

Take a minute to look up from the pavement in the City of London and you will find historic gems that reveal a great deal about the founding of…

Back to basics

Freemasonry today

Anthony Sayer may have been chosen as the first Grand Master of Grand Lodge in 1717, but little is known about his life. Steven Smith questions why, and…

Tracing New Zealand’s Masonic Roots

Onlookers watch as settlers arrive at Wellington port in the early nineteenth century

Roger Marjoribanks looks to his family tree to follow the masonic life of Stewart Marjoribanks and his role in the creation of New Zealand as we know it…