Helen J. Nicholson FRHistS FLSW is Emerita Professor of Medieval History and former Head of the History Department at Cardiff University.
She is a world-leading expert on the military religious orders and the Crusades, including the history of the Templars.
[1] Nicholson studied for a BA in Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.
[2] Nicholson was awarded her PhD from the University of Leicester in 1990 following an Open Research Scholarship.
[3] Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Images of the military orders, 1128–1291: Spiritual, secular, romantic".