Switzerland

On 9 March 1522 the Swiss Reformation began with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’

Meant to live a life of perfect peacefulness and contemplation, in reality monks were human and fallible. How violent could life in the medieval cloister be?

When it was first named in 17th-century Switzerland, nostalgia was a very real – and very dangerous – disease.

The League of Nations has been much derided, but it laid the foundations for an international court and established bodies that the United Nations maintains today.