Mike Horswell completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2017 under Professor Jonathan Phillips. He is the author of several articles and chapters on the memory of the crusades in the modern era and has and enduring interest in the ways in which the past is used, reinvented and redeployed.

• Introduction PART I: RISE 1. The Victorian Foundations of British Crusader Medievalism 2. ‘We Hope Every Crusader will Grow Up an Accomplished Christian Gentleman’: Young Crusaders 3. Gospel Crusaders PART II: FALL 4. ‘My Dream Comes True’: Crusading in the Great War 5. Interwar Crusading 6. A Deep Engagement with Crusadery: ‘The Tenth Crusade’ of The Most Noble Order of Crusaders (est. 1921) 7. ‘A Crusade Which Lacks a Cross’?: Crusader Medievalism and the Second World War Conclusions: Rise and Fall

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