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	<title>The Library and Museum of Freemasonry</title>
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		<title>Encounters: Artists and Freemasonry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library and Museum&#8217;s latest exhibition explores how artists have responded to freemasonry over the last 300 years. It features the work of William Hogarth in the 18th century, the photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn in the 20th century and several artists from across Europe working today.
The exhibition opens on 25th February 2013 and runs until 20th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See our oil paintings on the BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/our-collection-of-oil-paintings-is-now-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/our-collection-of-oil-paintings-is-now-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Details and pictures of the 150 oil paintings in the collection at Freemasons’ Hall in Great Queen Street are now available as one of over 3,200 venues across the UK participating in a joint project between the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and the BBC. Freemasons Hall is one of many institutions (including all the Oxford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sportsmen in English Lodges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This list of 200 sportsmen in English Constitution lodges was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition Game, Set and Lodge: Freemasons and Sport held at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London from July – December 2012.
Download the list here / Find out more about the exhibition here

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		<title>Standards and banners</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/standards-and-banners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our information leaflet on the Use of Standards and Banners in freemasonry is now available from the Information Leaflets section of the Resources page
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		<title>Museum Mile: Download a podcast of the Curator’s favourite exhibit</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/museum-mile-download-a-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/museum-mile-download-a-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to listen to a podcast about the Curator’s favourite exhibit.
Click the &#8216;Library and Museum of Freemasonry&#8217; entry on the map to jump to our links. You can download &#038; listen to an introduction to the Museum or find out about an 18th-century Lodge.

Find out more about the Museum Mile at www.museum-mile.org.uk
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		<title>New Exhibition &#8211; The Patriot Mason: Freemasonry in American Society</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/new-exhibition-the-patriot-mason-freemasonry-in-american-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/new-exhibition-the-patriot-mason-freemasonry-in-american-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This new exhibition opens in the Library and Museum on America’s Independence Day, Monday 4th July, and continues until Christmas. It explores the role of freemasonry in American society from the 18th century to the present day, drawing on rarely seen objects from the Library and Museum’s own collections. One of the world’s rarest Masonic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition &#8211; Building Solomon’s Temple</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/exhibition-building-solomons-temple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1924 the Grand Secretary of the English freemasons led a delegation to Jerusalem where he inaugurated a new Masonic lodge, the Lodge of King Solomon’s Temple. At the time Britain was responsible for the administration of Palestine (comprising modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza) under a League of Nations mandate and several members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Solomon’s Temple, 17th Jan to 27th May 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/news/building-solomons-temple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Building Solomon’s Temple exhibition at Freemasons’ Hall in Great Queen Street, the Library and Museum of Freemasonry explores how freemasonry took King Solomon’s Temple from literature to artefact and how archaeological exploration provided new material for use in Masonic ceremonies and architecture.
The exhibition runs from 17th Jan to 27th May 2011.

Find out more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition &#8211; The Masonic Emporium: Selling to the world</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/exhibition-the-masonic-emporium-selling-to-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/exhibition-the-masonic-emporium-selling-to-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library and Museum of Freemasonry’s latest exhibition explores the development of the market for Masonic items, telling the story of its suppliers and customers. When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 there were about 500 Masonic lodges in the British Empire, by the time she died in 1901, there were nearly 2,000. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lodge Family Tree Charts</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/resources/lodge-family-tree-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/resources/lodge-family-tree-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freemasons meet in lodges. Each lodge will have a warrant of constitution from its governing Grand Lodge. A new lodge can be formed by a group of not less than seven Master Masons petitioning the Grand Master to do so. Each such petition must be supported by a recommendation from another lodge.

In this way lodges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lane&#8217;s Masonic Records</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/resources/lanes-masonic-records/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/resources/lanes-masonic-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Lane’s Masonic Records is an authoritative listing of all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges from the foundation of the first Grand Lodge in 1717. It is being brought up to date to include all lodges established up to 2010.
Masonic Records enables the history of freemasonry in a particular place to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masonic Aprons</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/masonic-aprons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/masonic-aprons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Masonic apron is the badge of membership for Freemasons. It symbolises the protective apron worn by stonemasons and in its original form was a complete lambskin. When a member joins he completes three ceremonies or 'degrees'.]]></description>
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		<title>Centenary Jewels</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/centenary-jewels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/centenary-jewels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a lodge can demonstrate one hundred years of continuous working it can apply for a 'centenary warrant' and its members are allowed to wear a centenary jewel. A decorative bar is available for bicentenaries. ]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Jewels</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/charity-jewels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/charity-jewels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freemasons have collected for charity from the earliest days of the organisation. One system used is 'Charity Festivals'. These originated from a collection carried out after a celebratory meal in the late 1700s. Members donating a sum of money become 'Stewards' for the year and can wear a medal or 'Masonic jewel'.]]></description>
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		<title>Other Fraternal and Friendly Societies</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/other-societies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/other-societies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freemasonry is not the only fraternal organisation. The oldest of these were formed in the 1700s. The range of organisations is very wide - from Old Friends to Druids, Oddfellows to Knights of the Phoenix, Buffaloes and Freemasons.]]></description>
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		<title>Freemasons and the Royal Society: Martin Folkes</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasons-and-the-royal-society-martin-folkes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasons-and-the-royal-society-martin-folkes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Folkes (1690-1754) was an antiquary who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 23 for his study of mathematics. He served as President of the Royal Society from 1741-1752.]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition &#8211; Freemasons and the Royal Society</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/exhibition-freemasons-and-the-royal-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/exhibition-freemasons-and-the-royal-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library and Museum of Freemasonry’s latest exhibition explores the links between freemasons and the Royal Society over the course of its history. The origins of the Royal Society lie in an “invisible college” of philosophers and scientists who began meeting in the mid-1640s to discuss the ideas of Francis Bacon.]]></description>
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		<title>Freemasonry and the French Revolution: Masonic Jewel</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-masonic-jewel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-masonic-jewel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 120,000 French soldiers and sailors were brought to England as prisoners of war during the period 1793-1815.]]></description>
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		<title>Freemasonry and the French Revolution: Chairs with Masonic Symbolism</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-chairs-with-masonic-symbolism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-chairs-with-masonic-symbolism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time when the Bastille prison was stormed by the Paris mob on 14 July 1789, English freemasonry was approaching a peak of respectability and prestige.]]></description>
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		<title>Freemasonry and the French Revolution: Napoleonic French Apron</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-napoleonic-french-apron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-napoleonic-french-apron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the two pillars are Joseph Bonaparte and Cambacères, two leading freemasons of the period. The apron was on display in the Freemasonry and the French Revolution exhibition which ran until 18th December 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Freemasonry and the French Revolution: Sèvres porcelain</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/freemasonry-and-the-french-revolution-sevres-porcelain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the French Revolution the Sèvres porcelain factory just outside Paris, originally established and patronised by the French Royal Family and nobility, turned to producing items which reflected the new political situation.]]></description>
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		<title>Talk &#8211; Symbolism Made Metal: Discover an Unknown Collection</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/talk-symbolism-made-metal-discover-an-unknown-collection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/events/talk-symbolism-made-metal-discover-an-unknown-collection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Dennis, Curator, talks about an almost unknown part of the collection - Masonic medals - in a talk entitled Symbolism Made Metal.]]></description>
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		<title>English Masonic Charity: Royal Cumberland School for Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.freemasonry.london.museum/showcase/english-masonic-charity-royal-cumberland-school-for-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library and Museum’s latest exhibition about Masonic charity includes an outline of the history of what was originally known as the Royal Cumberland School for the Daughters of Indigent Freemasons.]]></description>
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