The Last Supper

Religion

Professor Kathleen Burk and Simon Jenkins discuss Jenkins's new book, 'A Short History of Europe'. (Photo by David Hampton for BBC World Histories magazine)

Simon Jenkins and Kathleen Burk on the history of Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Shah Jahan Mosque was saved from developers and renovated from 1913 by Kashmiri lawyer Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, who also founded the Woking Muslim Mission. (Photo by Alamy)

Muslim worship in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Aztec priest performing the sacrificial offering of a living human's heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

General ancient history

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Sunset over the causeway to St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, England (Getty Images)

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An engraving showing the story of the Three Living and the Three Dead

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Catholics in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the ninth century Pope Nicholas I decreed that St Peter’s symbol, the cockerel, should be displayed on all churches and many incorporated the design into weather vanes. Pictured here is the St Thomas church spire, Melbury Abbas in Dorset, United Kingdom. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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Britain’s Catholic emancipation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of men wearing togas assault Julius Caesar in this painting depicting his assassination.

Violence, rebellion and sexual exploitation: the darker side of Ancient Rome

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years' War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Simon Schama.

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General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Living with the Gods. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christianity and the classical world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Knights Templar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the capture of Jerusalem during the third crusade

Crusader, deserter and traitor: the life and legacy of Raymond III of Tripoli. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

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What religion was practised by the people of Lithuania before their conversion to Christianity in the 14th century?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval Albigensians: Bath’s reincarnated heretics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

History explorer6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Dissolution and a forgotten colony. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1754: Siege of a town led by Godefroy de Bouillon (c1060-1100) 1st Crusade (1095-1099), showing Saracens firing arrows at Crusaders as they attempt to scale the walls. From manuscript of Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Crusades

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