Religion

Zionism’s roots were born from persecution, but in realising its goals it has enacted its own inescapable oppression.

The Archpriest Avvakum Petrov was burned in Pustozersk on 14 April 1682.

Soaring and swooping through a history of Catholicism, from 1789 to the present day.

Jean Calas was sentenced to be broken on the wheel in front of the cathedral in Toulouse, on 10 March 1762.

For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.

Despite persecution, Catholics survived in Protestant England. For the authorities, they were a problem with a silver lining.

The medieval period was a golden age of saints and miracles, but they were met with a healthy dose of scepticism.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries is a well-worn tale. Are we getting the whole story?

In 17th-century Tuscany and Malta some women were able to hold their abusers, members of the clergy, to account.

The dissolution of the monasteries as a series of decisions and indecisions.