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Author Calderwood, Paul

Title Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century : a National Newspaper Study of England and Wales
Published London : Taylor & Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (378 pages)
Summary By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking out for each others' interests. The popular view is of an organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed with deep mistrust by the press and wider society. Yet, as this book makes clear, this view contrasts sharply with the situation at the beginning of the century when the public's perception of Freemasonry in Britain was much more benevolent, with numerous establishment figures (including monarchs, government ministers, archbishops and civic wor
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ISBN 9781317132790
1317132793