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Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War

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Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

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Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity

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The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

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Living with the Gods

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Christianity and the classical world

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The Knights Templar

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Henry VIII’s savage Reformation

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

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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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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

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