Grand Secretary’s column – Winter 2013
I am delighted to report that the bicentenary celebrations of the Royal Arch in October were a major success. His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, in his…
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Prestonian Lecturer Tony Harvey on the Scouts and Freemasonry
Troop leader Fellowship, harmony and shared moral values – the parallels between Freemasonry and Scouting have been explored by Tony Harvey in…
Emily Draper becomes Worcester Cathedral’s first female stonemason apprentice
A career set in stone Emily Draper, twenty-six, is Worcester Cathedral’s first female stonemason apprentice. Tabby Kinder finds out how Freemason…
Freemasonry: Lyrics of Masonic Songs
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…
A.G.Mackey – Selected Writings – Royal and 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.