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Knights Templar

A small plug

Posted on 12 June 2023 by Helen Nicholson

The online books site Shepherd.com has posted a plug for my 2010 book A Brief History of the Knights Templar: https://shepherd.com/book/a-brief-history-of-the-knights-templar.

Past Imperfect Knights Templar

Posted on 22 June 2022 by Helen Nicholson

Some of the research material from my 'Knights Templar Estates' project has been incorporated into this little book, published last year. Read more about it in my Gawainsmum blog: https://gawainsmum.wordpress.com/2022/06/22/past-imperfect/ […]

Book’s out

Posted on 16 August 2017 by Helen Nicholson

The Everyday Life of the Templars is now out, priced at £20 or $32.95 for the hardback or £8.99 / $11.72 for the Kindle edition (Amazon only). It can be […]

The Everyday Life of the Templars

Posted on 14 July 2017 by Helen Nicholson

F040266 The Everyday Life of the Templars Press Release ... is due for publication on 27 July next: that is, in about two weeks' time.

The Knight Templar were not an underground order

Posted on 9 March 2017 by Helen Nicholson

in any sense of the word: https://gawainsmum.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/everyone-loves-a-mystery/ But the Templars did have lots of lovely chapels above ground. Blog post coming up soon.

Cover and blurb

Posted on 21 February 2017 by Helen Nicholson

So here is the publisher's front cover for the book; and here is the blurb: The lives of the medieval Templars seem hidden and mysterious. Helen Nicholson reveals their everyday […]

The Everyday Life of the Templars: update

Posted on 20 July 2016 by Helen Nicholson

Some readers of this blog will know that the data from these pages will form a central part of my forthcoming book The Everyday Life of the Templars, contracted to […]

The Templars’ Scottish charters

Posted on 9 May 2016 by Helen Nicholson

The 1308 inventory of the Templars' house at East Cowton in Yorkshire mentions 'all the charters of the Temple of Scotland'. Photo by Nigel Nicholson. Whatever happened to the Templars' […]

Getting the text book

Posted on 6 May 2016 by Helen Nicholson

Among the books that the Templars had in London in 1308 was one which was the textbook on pastoral care.

The maths of the case

Posted on 22 April 2016 by Helen Nicholson

A little arithmetic suggests that there were far fewer Templars than might be thought: see my gawainsmum blog.