London Month of the Dead - The Moon and Serpent

THE PROMISE OF DEATH The Real Story of the Templars and Assassins with Steve Tibble on Tuesday the 7th October 2025 at 7:00 pm 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. In this engaging account, 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. Tickets £12.50 including a 20% donation to Kensal Green Cemetery. Please click here to purchase. Dr Steve Tibble Dr Steve Tibble is a historian of the Crusades and author of several works including The Crusader Strategy and The Crusader Armies, with contributions to major academic publications such as the Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare. He studied at Cambridge and completed his PhD at London University, and is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway.

THE PROMISE OF DEATH
The Real Story of the Templars and Assassins with Steve Tibble
on Tuesday the 7th October 2025 at 7:00 pm

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.

In this engaging account, 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.

Tickets £12.50 including a 20% donation to Kensal Green Cemetery. Please click here to purchase.

Dr Steve Tibble
Dr Steve Tibble is a historian of the Crusades and author of several works including The Crusader Strategy and The Crusader Armies, with contributions to major academic publications such as the Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare. He studied at Cambridge and completed his PhD at London University, and is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway.