Only one Masonic lecture a year receives the official sanction and authority of the United Grand Lodge of England. Grand Lodge appoints a Prestonian Lecturer each year, and he gives a paper on a subject of his own choosing. The authors are among the most respected names in Masonic research and, wherever Prestonian Lectures are delivered, they attract large audiences. The previous five volumes of Collected Prestonian Lectures have been 'Masonic best-sellers'. This sixth volume contains the twelve papers presented between 2009 and 2021 and is the first time they have appeared in collected form. They cover a wide variety of subjects of broad interest and are aimed at a general Masonic readership, rather than the dedicated Masonic scholar.
Hardback
390 printed pages
Year | Title of Lecture | Lecturer | Page |
2009 | Go and Do Thou Likewise | J.S. Wade | 25 |
2010 | Music in Masonry and Beyond | W.B. Warlow | 71 |
2011 | Was Sir Christopher Wren a Freemason? | J.W.P. Campbell | 85 |
2012 | Scouting and Freemasonry: Two Parallel Organisations? | A.D.G. Harvey | 113 |
2013 | As We Were Seen Freemasonry and the Press | P.R. Calderwood | 123 |
2014 | 1814: Consolidation and Change | M.A. Kearsley | 147 |
2015 | Wherever Dispersed: the Travelling Mason in the Nineteenth Century | R. Burt | 179 |
2016 | Foundations: New Light on the Formation and Early Years of the Grand Lodge of England | R.A. Berman | 221 |
2017 | The Grand Design | J.W. Daniel | 257 |
2018 | A Good Workman Praises His Tools: Masonic Metaphors in Ancient Greece | C.P. Noon | 275 |
2019 | Freemasonry and the Great War: Masonic Reaction to the War Years | M. Karn | 293 |
(2020 | A System of Morality: Aristotle and the Making of the Ritual) | G. Boys-Stones | |
2021 | A Peculiar System of Morality: William Preston and the Definition of English Freemasonry | G. Boys-Stones | 337 |
