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Talk: Assassins and Templars - Chelsea History Festival

Sat 27 Sep 25
Saturday 27th September, 1pm - 2pm
Location: State Apartments, Royal Hospital Chelsea
Tickets: £12 Royal Hospital Chelsea, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4SR The Assassins and the Templars are two of history’s most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Violently opposed, they had vastly different reputations, followings and ambitions. Yet they developed strikingly similar strategies, and their intertwined stories have, oddly enough, uncanny parallels. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction. He shows how, outnumbered and surrounded, they survived only by perfecting ‘the promise of death’, either in the form of a Templar charge or an Assassin’s dagger. Death, for themselves or their enemies, was at the core of these extraordinary organisations. Their fanaticism changed the medieval world. And, even up to the present day, in video games and countless conspiracy theories, they have become endlessly conjoined in myth and memory... READ MORE>

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