Sacred passions

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

The story of some of the last peoples in Europe to embrace Christianity

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

Establishing the facts in the sex–gender debate

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

Best known for his graphic portrayal of sexual relationships within a working-class setting, the name of DH Lawrence remains synonymous with the scandal surrounding his most controversial novel, Lady