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

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

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.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

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

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