The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory (TRIH ep 335)
1717 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host John Dickey to discuss his book The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World. The episode traces Freemasonry's transformation from medieval stonemason lore into an eighteenth-century club and then a global institution: key moments include the court of James VI, the foundation of the Grand Lodge in 1717 and the Anderson's Constitutions (1723). Dickey and the hosts examine Masonic rituals, their intentionally banal "secrets," and how those practices...
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- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)