Insiders call it \'the Craft\'.
To the rest of us, Freemasonry is mysterious and suspect.
With 400,000 members in Britain, over a million in the USA, and around six million across the world, understanding the role of Freemasonry is as important now as it has ever been..
For Hitler, Mussolini and Franco the Lodges spread the diseases of pacifism, socialism and Jewish influence, so had to be crushed.
Professor Dickie\'s The Craft is a surprising and enthralling exploration of a movement that not only helped to forge Modern society, but still has substantial contemporary influence.
In the eyes of the Catholic Church, Freemasonry has always been a den of devil-worshippers.
Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry.
The Masons were as feared as they were influential.
Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy.
Masonic networks held the British empire together.
Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation.
Masonic influence became pervasive.
Yet its story is peopled by some of the most distinguished men of the last three centuries: Winston Churchill and Walt Disney
Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O\'Neal
Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin
Rudyard Kipling and \'Buffalo Bill\' Cody
Duke Ellington and the Duke of Wellington.
Founded in London in 1717 as a set of character-forming ideals and a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe.
Insiders call it \'the Craft\'.
To the rest of us, Freemasonry is mysterious and suspect
