Download or read book The History of Freemasonry in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire written by Leslie R. Harborne and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Freemasonry in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire written by Leslie R. Harborne and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century written by Paul Calderwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking out for each others’ interests. The popular view is of an organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed with deep mistrust by the press and wider society. Yet, as this book makes clear, this view contrasts sharply with the situation at the beginning of the century when the public’s perception of Freemasonry in Britain was much more benevolent, with numerous establishment figures (including monarchs, government ministers, archbishops and civic worthies) enthusiastically recommending Freemasonry as the key to model citizenship. Focusing particularly on the role of the press, this book investigates the transformation of the image of Freemasonry in Britain from respectability to suspicion. It describes how the media projected a positive message of the organisation for almost forty years, based on a mass of news emanating from the organisation itself, before a change in public regard occurred during the later twentieth-century. This change in the public mood, the book argues, was due primarily to Masonic withdrawal from the public sphere and a disengagement with the press. Through an examination of the subject of Freemasonry and the British press, a number of related social trends are addressed, including the decline of deference, the erosion of privacy, greater competition in the media, the emergence of more aggressive and investigative journalism, the consequences of media isolation and the rise of professional Public Relations. The book also illuminates the organisation’s collisions with nationalism, communism, and state welfare provision. As such, the study is illuminating not only for students of Freemasonry, but those with an interest in the wider social history of modern Britain.

Download or read book A Centennial History of Berkshire Chapter of Royal Arch Mason written by Freemasons. Pittsfield, Mass. Royal Arch Masons. Berkshire Chapter and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry written by Ric Berman MA and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, 'Free and Accepted' Masonry became part of Britain's national profile and the largest and most influential of Britain's extensive clubs and societies. The organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core at London's most influential lodge, the Horn Tavern. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression of their philosophical and political views, and the 'Craft' attracted an aspirational membership across the upper middling and gentry. Through an examination of previously unexplored primary documentation, Foundations contributes to an understanding of contemporary English political and social culture and explores how Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected the metropolitan and provincial elites. The book explores social networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the learned and professional societies, and the magistracy, and provides pen portraits of the key individuals who spread the Masonic message. Foundations and Schism (Sussex Academic, 2013), have been described as 'the most important books on English Freemasonry published in recent times', providing 'a precise, social context for the invention of English Freemasonry'. Berman's analysis throws a new and original light on the formation and development of what rapidly became a national and international phenomenon.

Download or read book The History of Freemasonry written by Albert Gallatin Mackey and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The history of freemasonry written by Robert Freke Gould and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of freemasonry from 1829 to the present time written by George Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonn of Works on the Occult Sciences Freemasonry a catalogue of lodge histories England Half title Bibliotheca masonica 1912 written by Frederick Leigh Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gould s History of Freemasonry Throughout the World written by Robert Freke Gould and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Freemason s Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonn of Works on the Occult Sciences written by F. Leigh Gardner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single-volume reissue of Gardner's three detailed catalogues (originally published 1903-1912), including the very rare volume on English freemasonry.

Download or read book A HISTORY of English Freemasonry written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of Freemasonry in Oxfordshire written by Freemasons. Oxfordshire, England. Provincial Grand Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Early History of Freemasonry in England written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: