Ashley Firth holds a BA (Hons) in history from the University of Huddersfield. Her MA thesis (2009) assessed the masculinity of the Knights Templar. Ashley went on to complete a PhD in 2017; her thesis was entitled: The Creation of the Jerusalemite Dynasty in the Twelfth-Century: Kingship, Military Masculinity and Fatherhood in William of Tyre’s Historia Rerum in Partibus Transmarinis Gestarum.
After working for several years as a university lecturer, Ashley Firth is now a full-time historian and author. Her research interests include the Crusades, gender and medieval kingship. Ashley’s first book, Trailblazing Medieval Women was published in July 2026. She writes for several scholarly and general history websites and publications and has developed several websites of her own, including her personal sites, Ashley Firth and Manchistorian.
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