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The Battle of the Somme produced more than one million casualties. Director of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry Diane Clements marks the masons who fought for freedom
The centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 will be marked this summer. On that single day there were almost 60,000 British casualties, most of them before noon, of whom nearly 20,000 died.
Sir Alfred Robbins perceived influence in the governing of freemasonry in the early years of the twentieth century led to him being described as “the prime Minister of English freemasonry”. Born in 1856 in Launceston, Cornwall, he became a well-respected journalist as London Correspondent for the Birmingham Daily Post from 1888. Robbins joined freemasonry in Gallery Lodge No.1928, the lodge for members of the Press Gallery of the House of Commons,
Shropshire’s famous Iron Bridge is a landmark famous since its opening in 1781 – and in recent times has been of added Masonic significance since the…
Almost 80 of the friends of the Warrington Museum of Freemasonry held their annual dinner to mark the first anniversary of the museum being opened. The…
Come full circle Stonehenge’s history has inspired many outlandish theories linking Freemasons and druids. John Hamill recounts the real life…
Perpetual memorial As Commonwealth nations mark the armistice signed to end the First World War, Diane Clements, Director of the Library and Museum of…
Command performance Robert Henderson-Bland was an actor, soldier, poet and Freemason. Director of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry Diane…
Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) is considered by many to be the godfather of the internet. He was never directly involved in its development, but in a…
Born near Ballylongford, Kerry, Ireland, in 1899 Kitchener was appointed Governer General of Sudan and from 1902-09 he was Commander in Chief of India. Appointed Secretary of State for War in 1914, Lord Kitchener was lost at sea in the sinking of the British cruiser HMS Hampshire.
On 18 December 1914 an extraordinary document arrived at Freemasons’ Hall in London addressed to Sir Edward Letchworth, the Grand Secretary. It began: ‘We, the undersigned brethren, at present interned with other British civilians at the concentration camp at Ruhleben, Spandau, Germany, send hearty good wishes to the Grand Master, officers and brethren in Great Britain, hoping that we may have the pleasure soon of greeting them personally.’