History Matters

Religious history

Rachael Haslam | 28 September 2020

'One Who Does Not Need the Help of a Man': Women in Medieval Letter Collections

George Litchfield | 19 August 2020

'Holy Satan'- Visualising the Letters of Gregory VII (1073-1085)

Saurabh Mishra | 11 November 2019

When Courts Adjudicate History: The Ayodhya Verdict

Samuel Young | 9 July 2019

Pierre Mendès France and the politics of milk

Claire Chambers and Rehana Ahmed| 8 March 2019

Thirty Years of the Fatwa

Zanne Domoney-Lyttle | 27 February 2019

How to Read the Bible through Comic Books, and Why It Matters that we do

Joseph Laycock | 19 November 2018

40 Years Later: How We Talk About Jonestown And Why It Matters

Alicia Smith | 17 October 2018

A Day As An Anchorite

Frances Hargreaves | 28 August 2018

The #MeToo Movement, Intersectionality, And Its Implications For Dalit Women

Apurba Chatterjee | 27 June 2018

Empire And Reformation: Perspectives And Possibilities

Emily Marlow | 20 December 2017

Finding Jesus In Video Games

David Lincicum | 12 December 2017

Top 10 Books On The Historical Jesus

Charles West | 24 October 2017

Top 10 Books on the History of Medieval Europe

Sophie Sexon| 8 August 2017

Queering Christ’s Wounds and Gender Fluidity in Medieval Manuscripts

Elizabeth Goodwin| 1 August 2017

‘Where my ancestors lieth’: Community, Rebellion and Roots in a Yorkshire Church

Jo Henderson-Merrygold | 27 July 2017

Tim Farron, the Bible and Queerness

Katie Edwards and Emma Nagouse | 8 May 2017

How the Bible Shapes Contemporary Attitudes to Rape and Sexual Assault

Johanna Stiebert | 27 April 2017

Sex, Rape and Social History – The Case of the Bible

Meredith Warren | 13 April 2017

What Would Jesus Eat This Easter? A First Century Menu for the Last Supper

Máirín MacCarron | 6 April 2017

So What Is Christian About Easter?

Elizabeth Goodwin | 14 February 2017

To have and to hold?: Sex, purity and piety in medieval marriage

James Brown | 4 July 2016

‘Mr Rothwell was Very Much Disordered with Drink’: The Long History of the Drunk Vicar

Máirín MacCarron| 4 June 2016

From Jarrow to Rome: Celebrating 1300 years of an Anglo-Saxon masterpiece

Imen Neffati | 23 May 2016

Islamophobia, the Intellectual Inquisition: Has Debate on Islam Become Impossible in Europe?

James Williamson | 27 April 2016

Polygamy: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

Elizabeth Goodwin | 16 March 2016

Still no Saint? Mother Teresa and the politics of female canonisation

Aaron Ackerlery | 2 March 2016

Satanic Cults and Ritual Abuse: A fantasy on film and in History?

Julia McClure | 15 February 2016

Capitalism on the Altar

Richard Flower | 5 November 2015

Pyramids or granaries? The genesis of Ben Carson’s theory

Saurabh Mishra | 25 September 2015

Of Fanaticism and Death in Mecca

Charles West | 8 September 2015

Is the Pope a Catholic?

Rachel Stone, Charles West | 1 July 2015

The work-life imbalance of Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims

Robert Moore | 23 February 2015

Magna Carta in Global Perspective

Conor O' Brien | 11 February 2015

‘Let No One Dare to Film the Lord’s Anointed’

Timothy Baycroft | 9 February 2015

After the Charlie Hebdo attacks: France, Anti Clericalism and Religious Freedom

Mark Greengrass| 25 July 2014

Christendom Destroyed

Alfred Reynolds | 13 July 2014

For god, glory and goals: Football and the Mesoamerican ball game

Elizabeth Goodwin | 12 June 2014

Suor Cristina’s Sister Act: Religious Women, Enclosure and the World

Andrew Heath | 9 June 2014

A Nineteenth-Century Trojan Horse Plot: The Philadelphia Bible Riots

Emma Newman | 29 April 2014

Pope Francis I and the Politics of Canonisation

Charles West | 22 April 2014

Is Britain a ‘Christian Country’, Historically Speaking?

Julia Hillner | 27 November 2013

Peter was here! Pope Francis and the ‘Authenticity’ of an Apostle’s Relics

Andrew Heath | 15 July 2013

Remembering The Draft Riots: From Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York To The Civil War Sesquicentennial

James Pennock |8 July 2013

It’s All In The Game: Popular History And The Investiture Contest

Julia McClure | 17 June 2013

Why We Should Remember The Poor: The Importance Of Poverty History

Catherine Fletcher | 14 May 2013

Infernally Popular: Dan Brown, Hannibal And Dante

Mary Vincent | 19 March 2013

What’s In A Name? Pope Francis I And The Jesuit Order

Julia Hillner | 9 March 2013

Deportation of Radical Clerics: Fourth-Century Style

Catherine Fletcher | 4 March 2013

Leo X: the ‘unfortunate’ pope 500 years on

Mary Vincent | 1 March 2013

Benedict XVI

Charles West | 25 February 2013

How not to step down from the papal see, or the not-so-strange story of Pope Formosus

Amanda Power | 14 February 2013

Papal Resignations, Past And Present

Tom Holland, Caroline Dodds Pennock | 22 December 2012

Apocalypse Now, by Tom Holland

Andrew Heath | 21 December 2012

A Sign of the Times: Millerism in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Amanda Power | 19 December 2012

What’s the point of the apocalypse?

Phil McCluskey | 18 November 2012

The Ottomans and the Apocalypse

Caroline Dodds Pennock | 17 November 2012

The 2012 Apocalypse, or why the world won’t end this week

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