It may come as a disappointment to some that there are no subterranean pens holding goats to be offered in ritualistic sacrifice. No torture chambers for intruders or revealers of secrets. No dragons.

MANY consider it a secret society shrouded in mystery, but Oxfordshire’s Masons say nothing could be further from the truth. While many of the society’s practices – such as its famous secret handshake ...

They may be known to have to bare the odd breast and roll a trouser leg up and perform a strange handshake - but secrecy surrounds the inner machinations of the Freemasons. In their 300th year they ...