Research Groups
Collaborative research built on the archive — current groups and how to join.
Almoner’s research groups are small, serious and source-driven: members working together on a defined corpus from the archive, sharing findings in the forum and, when ripe, publishing under Articles & Essays.
Groups now forming:
- Comparative Ritual Studies — mapping the Craft degrees across the archive’s seven languages: structure, wording, music cues. The flagship group.
- The Journal Project — indexing the nineteenth-century journal runs (starting with the Brazilian and English shelves): people, lodges, charities, controversies.
- Eastern European Lodge History — documenting the suppression-and-revival cycle, with special attention to Ukraine’s lodges and sources.
- Masonic Music & Performance — matching the recorded repertoire to historical songbooks; preparing the Sheet Music Archive.
- The Fraternal World — extending Encyclopedia entries on the wider fraternal orders with verified detail.
To join: become a member (free), then post an introduction in the forum’s Research Groups thread or write via the contact form (choose Research collaboration) stating your group, languages and the hours you can give. No credentials required — only care with sources.