Tony McMahon calls himself the bearded historian and appears on history TV programmes making the subject fun and accessible to global audiences
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Tag: Templar
A new Netflix drama about notorious killer Anders Breivik
Netflix has just released a drama called 22 July that details the murders carried out by the neo-fascist terrorist Anders Breivik in 2011
Major investigation into the Templars will be published in 2019!
Tony McMahon was the author of Quest for the True Cross and in 2019 he will publish a major investigation into the Knights Templar
Me as Henry VIII on ITV in October – tune in and watch!
Tony McMahon appears as Henry VIII on The Big Audition – a casting show broadcast by ITV on Friday nights
Knightfall – room for improvement in season 2!
Season one of Knightfall was a ratings success but it needs to improve significantly in season two when Mark Hamill joins
Movies that feature the Knights Templar
Movies that feature the Knights Templar in their plots from 1972 to the present day
Join me to discuss the Knights Templar at the Bradford Literature Festival
Professor Helen Nicholson and Tony McMahon will be talking about the Knights Templar at the Bradford Literature Festival in 2018
KNIGHTFALL character profile: William de Nogaret
Knightfall is the new blockbuster drama series from the History channel featuring the Knights Templar in their final days and a quest for the Holy Grail. It mixes fact and fiction to tell a compelling story. Some of the characters existed while others are fictional or a blend of people from that period. I’m going…
The Knights Templar, the Dead Sea Scrolls and hidden treasure
In 1947, two Bedouin shepherds were herding their flock on the rocky and steep slopes near Qumran by the shores of the Dead Sea in modern Israel. The area is pockmarked by caves and a goat disappeared inside one of these black holes. One of the shepherds threw a stone after it to tease the…
How white supremacists and Islamists exploit the Middle Ages for political gain
I’ve tried to avoid this topic but with comments from white supremacists appearing on social media channels linked to this blog, I need to make my position crystal clear on the relationship between the Knights Templar, white supremacists and Islamist-inspired terrorists. It’s quite simple. There isn’t one. That unfortunately hasn’t stopped groups in my native…