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Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London. 

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi

Brutality, corruption and abuses of power in the Metropolitan Police at the turn of the 20th century led to an inquiry – but no reform.

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.