The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory (TRIH ep 335)
1717 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host John Dickie 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).
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1717
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)