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A Freemason for more than forty years and twice Prestonian Lecturer, Ric Berman holds Grand Rank in the United Grand Lodge of England and is a Past Master of three English Lodges including Quatuor Coronati Lodge, the premier lodge of Masonic research. He is also an American Freemason, and a member or honorary member of lodges in five States, a Fellow of the Philalethes Society and past Anson Jones lecturer. As an historian, Ric researches and writes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century English, Irish and American freemasonry within their respective social and political contexts. He has written numerous journal articles and ten books, and has delivered plenary lectures worldwide. Ric holds a Master’s in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a Doctorate in History from the University of Exeter, following which he undertook post- doctoral research at the University of Oxford’s Modern European History Research Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Life Fellow of the Huguenot Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes.
