Daily Life in the Viking Great Army Camps reveals a mobile community of warriors, families, traders, craftspeople and captives.

France entered the Hundred Years’ War amid dynastic dispute, financial strain, divided loyalties and defeats that tested the new Valois monarchy.

Knights of Malta: From Hospitaller Rule to the Great Siege — how a medieval order turned Malta into a fortress and resisted Suleiman in 1565.

The Hospitallers on Rhodes transformed from crusading knights into a sovereign maritime power, ruling an island fortress at the edge of Christendom for two centuries.

Second Battle of St Albans saw Margaret of Anjou crush Warwick’s Yorkists, rescue Henry VI, and pave the way for Edward IV’s rise.

The Hospitallers, founded as caregivers for sick pilgrims in Jerusalem, became one of the Crusades' most powerful military orders without abandoning their mission of mercy.

The Hospitallers began as a Jerusalem hospital order in 1099 and, through crusading wars and strategic island bases, became a sovereign military power in Rhodes and Malta.

Battle of Mortimer's Cross. Edward of York turns grief into victory, rallying his army beneath a three suns omen to defeat the Lancastrians in 1461.

The Teutonic Order began as a hospital brotherhood in the Holy Land and swiftly became a crusading military order. Between the 13th and 15th centuries its knights conquered and colonised Prussia and Livonia, forging a powerful crusader state – until defeat by Poland–Lithuania (e.g., at Grunwald in 1410) and the Reformation dissolved their domain.

Knights Templars rose from guarding pilgrims to shaping war, wealth, and power across medieval Europe—before politics and suspicion brought their dramatic fall.