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2024-2025

  • University Freemasonry – A. R. Green
  • The Bristol Tracing Boards – A. R. Baker
  • A Personal Account of the Founding of the Derek Buswell Lodge of Provincial Grand Stewards No 9705 – P. M. Jackson 
  • Morley Chapter No.8320 – The First Fifty Years – A. R. Green 
  • In Whom Do You Put Your Trust? – R. Stephen
  • The Past Master’s Jewel and what it represents in Freemasonry – J. Crawford
  • Freemasonry and Sailing: Values, Traditions and Aspirations – P. Beachell

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2023-2024

  • Some artefacts in the Thorp Museum and their stories – D. Andrews
  • A daily advancement in masonic knowledge – M. England 
  • Conundrum of the Additional Explanations of the Craft Aprons – R.T. Crane
  • A Masonic Service at Leicester Cathedral in 1927 – D. J. Hughes
  • Kelly’s Patents – A. N. Newman
  • The Dunckerley Silver Plate – D. A. Peacock
  • Antients Freemasonry in Leicestershire in 1774 – D. A. Peacock 
  • Colonel Sir Thomas Fowke – The First Provincial Grand Master of Leicestershire – Dr. A. R. Green 
  • What did Provincial Grand Masters do in the Eighteenth Century – A. N. Newman
  • The responsibilities of a very modern Provincial Grand Master – P. C. Kinder
  • Oration on the Centenary of the Holmes Lodge, No. 4656 – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Oration at the Centenary Meeting of Temperantia Lodge, No. 4088 – – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Michael Edward Herbert (1932–2024) – A. N. Newman
  • Derek Alfred Buswell (1930–2024) – P. C. Kinder
  • Tribute to Derek Buswell – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Michael Henry Roalfe – Rev. Canon M. Wilson

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2022-2023

  • The Founding of Prince Rupert Lodge No. 7841 – J. D. Varley
  • The ‘Bowring’ Tracing Boards in Leicester – Dr. A. R. Green
  • The first student initiate of the Wyggeston Lodge – Dr. A. R. Green
  • A Brief History of the first Fifty Years of the Red Cross of Constantine Isle of Patmos Conclave, No. 277 – D. J. Highton
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton: Explorer, National Hero, and Freemason – M. Robinson
  • A Review Essay of Masonry Dissect’d by Samuel Prichard, 1730 – D. Hughes
  • Oration at Centenary of St Martin’s Chapter, 1 June 2023 – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Oration at the Celebration of the Centenary of the Vale of Catmos Chapter, 1265, 5 July 2023 – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • The Evolution of the Book of Constitutions Exhibition in the Thorp Museum – A Report – A. N. Newman
  • Anderson’s Book of Constitutions and the British Isles: Tercentenary Commemoration – A Report – A. N. Newman

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2021-2022

  • The Four Original Grand Lodges: The Origin of the Masonic Order of Pilgrim Preceptors – C.D. Crocker
  • Stewards, Provincial, Grand and Otherwise – D. J. Hughes
  • Bro. Capt. Frederick Scott, M.C., 1893–1918 – Rev. C. R. Watts
  • The Victoria Cross – M. Smith
  • Bro. Walter Potter Ritchie, V.C. – D. M. Sharpe
  • The Antiquity of Freemasonry: Roots and Origins – D. J. Hughes
  • Jews in Leicestershire Freemasonry – A. N. Newman
  • Masonic Facts – V. Travens
  • The Fletcher Tracing Boards – Dr. A. R. Green
  • The Skull and Crossbones as Emblems of Mortality – D. M. Sharpe
  • A 21st Century Response to Dwight L. Smith’s Whither are we Travelling? (Part 3) – M. S. Doxsee
  • The Lads of 766 – A. N. Newman
  • Rudyard Kipling, Poet and Writer – M. A. Robinson
  • Oration at the Consecration of the Union of Rugby Lodge, No. 9989 – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of W.Bro. Stephen Davison – Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Royal Arch Service, St Mary de Castro, Leicester –  Rev. Canon M. Wilson
  • Warwickshire Royal Arch Service, St Peter, Coughton – Rev. Canon M. Wilson

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2020-2021

  • The Place of the Province in Freemasonry – A. N. Newman
  • Masonic Meeting Places in Hinckley, 1803 to 2019 – D. A. Peacock
  • The Ancient Mysteries of Freemasonry – H. Mallinson
  • Allegory and Symbol – F. G. Fleeman
  • The Holmes Temple: Construction and Symbolism, a Guide – D. J. Hughes
  • The Great Architect of the Universes – R. Barnett
  • Secrets of The Masonic Golden Globe, Cross Fob or Orb
  • The Significance of the Portraits in The Holmes Temple – D. J. Hughes
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Joy of Becoming a Freemason in the Eighteenth Century – A. D. Herbert
  • Jean Sibelius – E. Salmu
  • A 21st Century Response to Dwight L. Smith’s Whither are we Traveling? (Pt.2) – M. S. Doxsee
  • Twin Columns – Lacquer Boxes – Octagonal Tabletops – M. Gilhuys Notarbartolo
  • The Kirkwall Scroll (Part One) – P. Blakemore
  • Field Marshal, 1st Earl Frederick S. Roberts, Soldier and Freemason – M. A. Robinson
  • At Christmas 2020 – Rev. Canon M. Wilson

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