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Welcome to this episode of God Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. The Templars are big box office

in Medieval history. I mean, a military order of night months who explode onto the scene

and then spectacularly fall from grace. They maintain such a hold over our imagination

that people still see them at the core of secret societies even today.

So a new book on Templars is always going to catch my eye, but is there a new angle?

Well fortunately Steve Timbles got me covered on this. His new book,

Templars The Nights Who Made Britain focuses on the part of the order's story that's often overlooked.

In their pursuit of wealth and influence to drive war in the Holy Land, what impact did they have

on places like Britain? Steve's here to explain why it's such a fascinating and vital part

of their story. So welcome to God Medieval Steve. Thank you Matt, I love you to be here.

I mean, I can't wait to talk more Templars and this is a bit of their story that I think often,

as I said, gets overlooked or forgotten in their efforts to raise money for what they were doing

in the Holy Land. They leave these footprints in nations all across Europe, don't they?

Yeah, absolutely. It's an unforeseen consequence in some ways and one of the things I'd like to

talk about today is the way in which things can happen, good things can happen without anybody

meaning to. It's not that anybody is trying to be Mother Teresa, but actually there are ways in

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