Religion

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

Pre-Islamic history was once taboo in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Will the ‘rediscovery’ of an ancient people – the Nabataeans – encourage international tourism?

The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular powers.

From a cult’s rogue personalities to its foundational ideologies, how have fringe beliefs guided the direction of the American dream?

On 23 February 303 Roman emperor Diocletian embarked on his Great Persecution of the empire’s Christians. Why?

Are beavers beasts or fish? For medieval philosophers, this was an important question with implications for the dining table.

The changing climate of the Little Ice Age forced radical thinkers to reconsider humanity’s place in the universe.

The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a medival Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It set the path to their expulsion.

There was no law permitting cremation, but there was no law against it either. On 13 January 1884, a Welsh druid took the matter to trial.

The issue of assisted dying was first put before Parliament in 1936. Many of the same questions remain, but the arguments have changed.