Ric Berman

Ric Berman researches, writes and speaks on eighteenth and nineteenth-century English, Irish and American history, with an emphasis on freemasonry, the largest and most consequential society in Europe and America. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of numerous journal articles and ten books, and has delivered keynote lectures worldwide. Ric holds an MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter, respectively, and undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford's Modern European History Research Centre. A freemason for more than forty years and twice Prestonian Lecturer, VW Bro. Ric holds Grand Rank in the United Grand Lodge of England and is a Past Master of three English Lodges including Quatuor Coronati, the premier lodge of Masonic research. He is also an American freemason, a member and honorary member of lodges in seven states, a Blue Friar, and a Fellow of the Philalethes Society. Born in London, Ric lives in rural Oxfordshire.