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Popularised in the book and film series The Da Vinci Code, the Knights Templar were a mysterious holy militia that sprang up in the 12th century.The medieval order, which had chapters across Europe, including in Britain, were known for…

. . . are you reading now?Peter Frankopan's extraordinary volume, The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story. It follows his earlier masterpiece, The Silk Roads, as a work of vast scholarship, yet it is even more ground-breaking in…