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Forbidden History with Jamie Theakston – and me!

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Tony McMahon

Jamie Theakston is presenting season five of Forbidden History on Yesterday TV with Tony McMahon appearing as a regular history expert

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Category: Templar News Tags: Art, christ, communist, DDR, five, Forbidden History, germany, Jamie Theakston, jesus, medieval, men, Monuments, nazi, news, prison, scrolls, season, secret, societies, society, Stasi, Templar, theft, TV, Yesterday

Did women fight in the Crusades?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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It’s a subject that has vexed historians and history buffs – did women fight in the crusades? There are strong claims that they did. But what role did they actually play? Saracen claim of women on crusade The Saracen chronicler…

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Category: Templar History Tags: crusader, crusades, feminist, Islam, knight, Knightfall, Medieval, men, saracen, Templar, women

Templars and sodomy – were the knights really gay?

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Tony McMahon

The Templars are often accused of being gay or more particularly sodomites but this may have been a propaganda slur

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Category: Templar History Tags: Anal sex, Catholic, Catholic Church, confess, equality, faith, gay, heresy, homosexual, king, Knight Templar, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, London, man, marriage, Medieval, men, middle ages, Philip, queer, religion, Roman Empire, sentence, sodomy, Templar, torture, trial, woman