Helen Nicholson (historian)


Helen Nicholson FRHistS FLSW is Professor of Medieval History and former Head of the History Department at Cardiff University. She is an world-leading expert on the military religious orders and the Crusades, including the history of the Templars.
Nicholson studied for a BA in Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Nicholson was awarded her PhD from the University of Leicester in 1990 following an Open Research Scholarship. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Images of the military orders, 1128–1291: Spiritual, secular, romantic". Her PhD was supervised by Norman Housley. Nicholson taught at the University of Leicester before her appointment as Lecturer in the History Department at Cardiff University in 1994.

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