- Publisher: Bodleian
- Year: 2018
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 284x235mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 1.5kg
- ISBN: 9781851244676
- Product code: 537434
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Oxford Freemasons
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The Apollo has been the official Masonic Lodge of Oxford University for more than 200 years, and its members have included Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster and the future Edward VII. Based on archives in the Bodleian Library and extensively illustrated with portraits, documents and memorabilia, this history records the Lodge’s foundation and development, its losses in two world wars, its charitable work, and its adaptation to the 21st century.
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Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo - the Masonic lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole, Cecil Rhodes, Edward, Prince of Wales and his brother Leopold, Charles Canning, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Godfrey Elton and Roger Makins.
Drawing on archives held in the Bodleian Library, this book is the first serious attempt to set the story of Apollo in the context of Oxford life and learning as well as its wider social and political diaspora. From the devastating numbers lost in the First and Second World Wars, as well as those decorated for bravery, to the significant number of Olympians who were members of the lodge, it also charts the lodge's charitable work, its changes of location, social events and adaptation to twenty-first-century life in Oxford.
Illustrated with archival material, portraits and Masonic treasures, this is history in a minor key, but a minor narrative with major implications, documenting the remarkable numbers of Oxford freemasons with distinguished careers in government, law, the army and the Church.
Drawing on archives held in the Bodleian Library, this book is the first serious attempt to set the story of Apollo in the context of Oxford life and learning as well as its wider social and political diaspora. From the devastating numbers lost in the First and Second World Wars, as well as those decorated for bravery, to the significant number of Olympians who were members of the lodge, it also charts the lodge's charitable work, its changes of location, social events and adaptation to twenty-first-century life in Oxford.
Illustrated with archival material, portraits and Masonic treasures, this is history in a minor key, but a minor narrative with major implications, documenting the remarkable numbers of Oxford freemasons with distinguished careers in government, law, the army and the Church.
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The Apollo has been the official Masonic Lodge of Oxford University for more than 200 years, and its members have included Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster and the future Edward VII. Based on archives in the Bodleian Library and extensively illustrated with portraits, documents and memorabilia, this history records the Lodge’s foundation and development, its losses in two world wars, its charitable work, and its adaptation to the 21st century.
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