Miners, mariners and masons: the global network of victorian freemasonry: by Roger Burt, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2020, 324pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-905816-16-3

This book proclaims itself to be the ‘first sustained and dispassionate study of the role of freemasonry in everyday social and economic life’. In the preface, the author makes the point that this ...