Religion

An illustration from the first edition of John Foxe The Book of Martyrs. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Elizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics

Photo of a bishop's mitre

Q&A Why are bishops called Pontiffs?

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Q&A What was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Second World War

The Library D-Day for God?

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Christianity ‘transformed how dead were buried’

Christians ‘airbrushed women out of history’

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The Library History Explorer: the rise of English Christianity

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels

Tironensian communities such as that of Kelso Abbey were particularly popular in Scotland. (Heartland-Arts/Getty Images)

Where history happened: the monastic revolution

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Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

The call for the First Crusade was initially made by Pope Urban (pictured) in 1095. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Britain and Islam: a matter of faith

Graffiti crosses found in churches

Church graffiti

Effigy of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Where history happened: the cult of Thomas Becket

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The Crusader States

Our Lady of Sorrows, by unknown artist (20th century), photographic reproduction, 103x65 cm, inv 1602. Copyright Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosian. (Getty Images)

The day a Mexican farmer had a vision of the Virgin Mary