Religion

Christmas Fare

David Bates examines a Tudor Christmas Fare at Hampton Court Palace.

Henry VIII and his Church

Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic.

Blacks in the Gordon Riots

Marika Sherwood trawls contemporary reports of the anti-Catholic protests that rocked London in June 1780 to reveal the black men and women who took part, exploring their motives and punishments for doing so.

How The West Saw Medieval Islam

Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict has colored Christian-Islamic relations since.