Paperback - 160 pages - 210 mm x 126 mm

Numerous Colour and Black + White Illustrations.

Often grouped under the misleading umbrella title of ‘masonic’, a vast range of friendly and fraternal societies existed that provided sociability, financial security and moral leadership for their members. Ranging from nationally organised orders to tiny village savings clubs, they were an essential part of life for the majority of people in Britain until relatively recently, but with a few exceptions they are now gone. In this ground-breaking and richly illustrated book Victoria Solt Dennis describes these orders and helps identify many of the objects associated with them.