Religion

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

Alex Barker discusses St Augustine's Abbey Museum.

Richard Cavendish describes the launch of the Second Crusade on May 19th, 1147.

Onward Christian Socialists? Mark Bevir takes a timely look at a little-known phenomenon that was part of turn-of-the-century radicalism in Britain.

Nigel Saul sets the scene for our major new series on the crusades of the eleventh century.

Previewing his forthcoming biography, Robert Knecht argues that recent whitewash has failed to cover guilty blood.

Wesleyan Catholicism - a contradiction in terms? Not in the 18th century, argues Charles Goodwin.

Robin Briggs believes some historians produce more fantasies than the witches they study.

Graham Darby spins a thread to guide you through the labyrinth of The Causes of the Thirty Years War.