Religion

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5 things you need to know about the discovery of what is possibly the world’s oldest Qur’an

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners

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Terror in Elizabethan England

(Illustration: Becca Thorne for BBC History Magazine)

The perils of piety in Tudor England

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In pictures: medieval stained glass

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Saladin, seen in a 12th-century portrait, led Muslim opposition to the crusaders and united much of the Middle East. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How to lead like Saladin

Science and St Peter

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&A Did the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

A statue of Aphrodite

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

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Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war

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First World War

Did the Great War kill God?

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A brief guide to the history of heresy

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The long history of the Crusades

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1987: Sweden, Gotland, Detail of stone relief representing the divine triad: Odin (chief god), Thor (god of thunder) and Freyr (god of fertility). (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Q&A Were the pagan English gods the same as the Viking gods?