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- Looking for a good book? November 1, 2023Shepherd.com have published their ‘100 best books of 2023‘: that is, the books recommended by the authors whose books they promote. These are not necessarily the books you’ve seen recommended by Goodreads, Bookbub or Amazon! If you’re looking for that … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Sybil in Paperback October 2, 2023Sybil, queen of Jerusalem, 1186-1190 is out in paperback! Now at the much more affordable price of £38.00 plus free postage within the UK. Details on the publisher’s website: https://www.routledge.com/Sybil-Queen-of-Jerusalem-11861190/Nicholson/p/book/9781032234663gawainsmum
- A small plug June 8, 2023The online book site Shepherd.com has produced this plug for my 2010 book A Brief History of the Knights Templar, at https://shepherd.com/book/a-brief-history-of-the-knights-templar. My book was kindly recommended by Dr Nicholas Morton of Nottingham Trent University!gawainsmum
- Women and the Crusades February 20, 2023My book Women and the Crusades was published by OUP in the UK on 23 Feb. This certainly isn’t the first book on the subject and it won’t be the last, but I hope it will give readers an insight … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Women and the Crusades November 28, 2022Very many years ago, back in the early 1990s when I was applying for university teaching posts, my next big research project was going to be women’s roles in the crusades. I had collected a good deal of primary evidence … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Sybil, Queen of Jerusalem June 23, 2022A few months late: but as the Conference for the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East takes place next week, I should mention that my study of Queen Sybil of Jerusalem (queen 1186-92) was published … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Past Imperfect June 22, 2022About a year ago, ARC Humanities Press published a short book on the Knights Templar in their ‘Past Imperfect’ series. The series ‘presents concise critical overviews of the latest research by the world’s leading scholars’. It was an honour to … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- Road Collision Investigation Branch November 8, 2021Originally posted on Official Gawain Blog: I fell over this by accident: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/creating-a-road-collision-investigation-branch-rcib You may be a better-informed reader and have already seen it. Effectively, the Government has noticed that road traffic collisions tend to go uninvestigated except in so…gawainsmum
- The Templar Estates in Lincolnshire: new book by Dr Mike Jefferson November 4, 2020It was a great honour to examine the brilliant doctoral thesis which has now been transformed into this book. If you are studying the Templars’ estates, their operations in Europe, their logistics, or studying the economic history of medieval Europe, … Continue reading →gawainsmum
- The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles at knock-down price September 8, 2020If you want a copy of my Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles but can’t afford it, the volumes are currently available from Postscript books at £30 the pair: https://www.psbooks.co.uk/Proceedings-against-the-Templars-in-the-British-Islesgawainsmum
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