Religion

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War

A scene from ’Othello’ by William Shakespeare, published in 1622. The play “seems to have been influenced by Anglo-Moroccan relations that reached their high point in the summer of 1600,” writes Brotton. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

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Living with the Gods

Catherine Nixey and Edith Hall on the HistoryExtra podcast

Christianity and the classical world

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The Knights Templar

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII’s savage Reformation

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation

Illustration of the capture of Jerusalem during the third crusade

Crusader, deserter and traitor: the life and legacy of Raymond III of Tripoli

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

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Second World War

The big questions of the Holocaust

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What religion was practised by the people of Lithuania before their conversion to Christianity in the 14th century?

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Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics