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Freemasons

August 2023

  • Under the Eye of Power cover

    ‘It happens again and again’: why Americans are obsessed with secret societies

    From the Salem witch trials to QAnon, people have remained fixated on the idea that dark forces are controlling society, explored in a revealing new book

February 2023

  • A London fire engine

    London fire brigade reviews Freemason ties after union criticism

    FBU raised concerns at meeting discussing review that found service to be institutionally misogynist

June 2022

  • Gaëlle Ndanga-Adjovi 36, an Inner Guard within the lodge.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘We like to keep a little mystery’: Britain’s female Freemasons – a photo essay

    Photographer Anna Gordon has been granted extraordinary access to the historically secretive Freemasonry for Women lodge, one of two Grand Lodges for women in the UK operating for more than a century, as it looks to the future

April 2022

  • OM Archive - Freemasons June 18 1967

    From the Observer archive
    The sign, the handshake and the steps: inside the world of the Freemasons, 1967

    Were they sinister or silly, what actually did they do? To this day no one is quite sure. By Chris Hall

December 2021

  • New Years Eve celebrations at the turn of the century circa 1900s

    Auld Lang Syne arm-linking at new year connected to Freemasons, book finds

    Study of Robert Burns’s best-known song associates joining of arms with masonic ‘circle of unity’

June 2021

  • Daniel Morgan

    The Daniel Morgan inquiry: corruption and obstruction at the Met

    Letters: Readers J Gwynfryn Jones, Bill Bradbury and Tom Challenor are not surprised by the finding of institutional corruption against the Met. Mary Pimm and Nik Wood think it’s time for a duty of candour on public bodies

December 2020

  • Gift shop at Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden Picture supplied by the United Grand Lodge of England

    Pass notes
    Something for secret Santa? The Freemasons open a gift shop

    If you want white gloves, a gavel, or a teddy bear in a masonic apron – or just fancy a glimpse inside the society’s London HQ – this could be the place to shop

June 2020

  • The statue of Albert Pike is toppled in Washington DC

    Protesters topple Confederate general statue in Washington DC and set it on fire

    Demonstrators pull down statue of Albert Pike and set it ablaze on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the US

December 2018

  • In 2001 Richard Hopkins was the co-founder of the first English freemasons’ lodge in Thailand, Chula Lodge, where he was twice worshipful master and secretary for the last seven years

    Other lives
    Richard Hopkins obituary

    Other lives: Talented music teacher, musical director, pianist and organist

August 2018

  • Zoe Williams

    Forget angry, Brexity stereotypes – the ‘white working class’ does not exist

    Zoe Williams
  • JAN - 2018_LONDON; Freemasons hall tour. (Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Freemasons to admit women – but only if they first joined as men

February 2018

  • Paul Chadwick

    Open door
    Public discussion of Freemasonry must be an open one – on all sides

    Paul Chadwick
  • Freemasons’ Hall in central London

    C of E raises serious concerns about Christian Freemasons

  • Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden, London.

    Freemasons are being discriminated against, says Grand Lodge

  • Freemasons in full regalia

    Freemasons: we have been undeservedly stigmatised

  • Freemasonry, politics, the press and transparency

  • Secret Freemasons should have no place in public life

    Dawn Foster

  • Shortcuts
    Is there a secret Freemasons' lodge in your workplace? Quiz

  • Freemasons in Westminster ‘should declare membership’

  • Freemasonry explained: a guide to the secretive society

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