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Nige Tassell asks Dr Owen Emmerson about the possible
Without England’s most notorious Tudor king, the country’s religious and political history would’ve looked very different
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The posthumous reputation of James VI and I
In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle
Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages