A definitive history of The Operatives, a masonic Society created to perpetuate the training and achievements of the ancient Guild stonemasons, written to commemorate the Society's Centenary.
Thirty-five years ago a Masonic researcher working in the Guildhall in London came across the records of an obscure Military Order formed during the 3rd Crusade, which adopted St. Thomas à Becket as its Patron Saint. Although never large, it eventually became important to the people of London but was one of the casualties and disappeared during the Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by King Henry VIII. Impressed by its entirely-English cha...
