Evidence first. Claims second. Citations always.
The lodge's research program is documentary: charters, minute books, returns, newspapers, and the material culture of the craft, read carefully and published openly.
What the lodge studies
The catalogue's working taxonomy — papers are welcome in any of these areas, and the list grows as the work does.
How a paper becomes part of the record
From a doubted date to a permanent catalogue number — six stations, every one of them documentary.
Claim
A question worth asking: a date doubted, an attribution challenged, a gap in the record named.
Source
Charters, minute books, returns, newspapers, regalia — the primary record, located and read in context.
Review
The paper is read before the lodge and weighed by the editorial committee, which asks for what's missing.
Paper
Argument, evidence, and citations in final form — every claim traceable to a source a reader can check.
Proceedings
Accepted work joins the annual volume of the Transactions under a permanent catalogue number.
Archive
Volumes open outward over time under the rolling-access policy — first to affiliates, then to the craft at large.
The Transactions are open for submissions.
Full papers, short talks, research notes, and book reviews are welcome from affiliates of the lodge. Affiliates submit online through the Reading Room; the Secretary is glad to advise intending authors beforehand. The submission guidelines and peer-review policy set out what we look for and how papers are read.