The Humble Beauty of Britain's Synagogues
Keith Kahn-Harris finds meaning in the lives of everyday Jews
Religion
A collection of 9 Posts
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
1918: Inside Amiens Cathedral
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
Thebes' West Bank
Garry J. Shaw introduces us to the elaborate temples of the Ancient Egyptians, and their close association with myth and legend