The Chain Tower, the Siege of Damietta and the Fifth Crusade
Thomas Smith revisits a dramatic moment from the Fifth Crusade when the Christians besieged the port of Damietta.
Religion
A collection of 13 Posts
Who Was The Venerable Bede and Why Does He Matter?
The Venerable Bede is one of the most significant figures in Anglo Saxon history. As Edoardo Albert explains, he was a scholar, an historian and a visionary
Who Was King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway?
Don Hollway tells us about the extraordinary life of Olaf Tryggvason, the Viking King of Norway
Mad Tom's Rising with Ian Breckon
The author Ian Breckon recalls one of the most peculiar revolts in English history
The Humble Beauty of Britain's Synagogues
Keith Kahn-Harris finds meaning in the lives of everyday Jews
The Vatican, the War and the Pope's Secret Bank
Yvonnick Denoël takes us back to the Second World War and the Vatican's efforts to secure their wealth
In Pursuit of Margaret Paston
For twenty five years Diane Watt has been searching letters and landscapes for traces of one of the fifteenth-century's most intriguing figures
Sandbags Inside Amiens Cathedral (1918)
A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church
A Thousand Golden Cities
Justin Marozzi introduces us to a ‘Description of Kabul’ from the Bāburnāma, the memoirs of Bābur
The Ruin of All Witches
Before Salem there was Springfield. Malcolm Gaskill reveals the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation