RESOURCES

Take your research further

BOOKS

Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction

Andreas Önnerfors

Oxford University Press, 2017

This guide to Freemasonry includes its rituals, symbols and practices.

Masonic Records 1717– 1894, 2nd Edition

John Lane

United Grand Lodge of England, 1895

This important source can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive at bit.ly/arch-masonic.

MUSEUM

MUSEUM OF FREEMASONRY

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Freemasons’ Hall, 60 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AZ t 020 7395 9257 w museumfreemasonry.

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As well as a range of interesting exhibits, the UGLE’s museum has a library and archives.

WEBSITE

LANE’S MASONIC DATABASE

w dhi.ac.uk/lane

This searchable database of all of the lodges that have been established by the English Grand Lodges, from the foundation of the first Grand Lodge in 1717 until 2010, is largely based on Lane’s work.

DANIEL WEINBREN works for the Open University and is the author of Tracing Your Freemason, Friendly Society and Trade Union Ancestors (2019)