It may come as a disappointment to some that there are no subterranean pens holding goats to be offered in ritualistic sacrifice. No torture chambers for intruders or revealers of secrets. No dragons.

Best-selling author Dan Brown's latest novel, The Lost Symbol, draws heavily on the lore and mystique of the Freemasons. A visit to one of the locations in the novel, a prominent Masonic building in ...

MANY consider it a secret society shrouded in mystery, but Oxfordshire’s Masons say nothing could be further from the truth. While many of the society’s practices – such as its famous secret handshake ...

They may be known to have to bare the odd breast and roll a trouser leg up and perform a strange handshake - but secrecy surrounds the inner machinations of the Freemasons. In their 300th year they ...