The Last Supper

Religion

For our forebears, the secret to a good night's sleep lay in the contents of your gut. (Photo by Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

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6 sleeping tips and tricks from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Construction of a medieval church

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Bravado or blunder? Architectural fails of medieval church builders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Knights Templar depicted on an antique map of Jerusalem. (Alamy)

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The rise and fall of the Knights Templar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, pictured in 1967 with his third wife, Farah Diba, and their son Reza. His attempted reforms during his final years in power alienated many of his nation's people. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The Iranian Revolution: why 1979's uprising still shapes the Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Tudor rose on a wooden ceiling beam.

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Monarchy and faith in Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of the Lindisfarne Stone from Holy Island, Northumbria. It shows seven warriors, possibly vikings. The Vikings’ first recorded raid on Lindisfarne took place in AD 793. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Viking

Your guide to the Viking raid of Lindisfarne in AD 793

A 16th-century woodcut by Albrecht Dürer entitled 'The true and false apostles of Christ'. As the Reformation recast Europe's spiritual landscape, many believers fretted that their religion no longer felt true to them. (Photo by Alamy)

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The fury that fuelled the rise of atheism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of theologian and Bible translator John Wycliffe (c1330–84). (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

The murderous history of Bible translations

Notre Dame of Paris at first light (Photo by Captblack76-Dreamstime.com)

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On the latest History Extra podcast, Christopher Somerville discusses his experiences of visiting some of Britain’s historic cathedrals, including Wells Cathedral, pictured. (Photo by Roger Utting | Dreamstime.com)

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Clifford's Tower stands on the site where around 150 Jews took their own lives rather than renounce their faith, in 1190. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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The persecution of Jews in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The expulsion of Jews from France in 1182. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Jews of medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Heck cows, the result of Nazi breeding experiments. Seven Heck cows had to be put down in January 2015 after they tried, on multiple occasions, to attack Devon farmer Derek Gow. (Photo by Jim Wileman/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Nazi super-cows and defamed Gods: 7 strange and forgotten moments in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

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Deadly rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view from the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral looking towards Trinity Chapel, which was built in the 12th century to house the remains of Thomas Becket. (Photo by Alamy)

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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)

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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)

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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

Q&AHow many people did the Aztecs sacrifice?

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

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9 places associated with the Prayer Book Rebellion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Islam’s struggle with modernity podcast

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Islam’s struggle with modernity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Inside the medieval mind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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.

Roman

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

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

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

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

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

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

Historian Simon Schama.

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