The Rev Neville Barker Cryer Asks Us To Remember A Little Restraint Some thirty years ago I began to realise that those who were called upon to present a toast to the Initiate, or to…

The Cornerstone Society held its annual conference at Tapton Hall, Sheffield, in November. The Society was founded in 1999 to help masons to gain a better understanding of both the meaning and purpose of Freemasonry,…

A Report On The Annual CMRC Conference On 30-31 October the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre (CMRC) held its twelfth annual international conference at the Canonbury Academy, an elegant sixteenth-century building situated in a leafy oasis…

An Intriguing Story Unearthed By David HarrisonCharismatic figures of high social rank became essential to Freemasonry, especially after the dark and difficult years of the early nineteenth century that some lodges had experienced. These influential…

The Revd. Neville Barker Cryer On The Advantages of Openness On the day before I sat down to write this article the choir of my local church led us in singing a hymn the words…

The Library and Museum has continued to make good progress in meeting its objective of making its collections available to as many people and to the widest possible range of audiences as possible in order…

Simon Best Weighs The Benefits Of A Broader Approach To HealthToday one hears and reads an increasing amount about ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ medicine, presented with varying degrees of support or scepticism depending on the author.…

Robert Temple Explains The Challenge Posed To Egyptology By A New Dating TechniqueOur ability to truly understand ancient peoples and cultures has been handicapped until now by the lack of any method to date ancient…

Diane Clements Charts The Creation Of The Masonic Consumer At the beginning of July, the Library and Museum of Freemasonry in Freemasons’ Hall, Great Queen Street, London, opened an exhibition showing the development of the…

Bletchley Park Guide John Jackson Looks At The Project To Rebuild The Bombe, The Machine Used To Break Wartime German Enigma-Enciphered Messages Britain’s greatest secret of the Second World War – its codebreaking headquarters at…