Are you considering recording your religion as Jedi, heavy metal or climate-concerned on census day? Before you do, consider why the census asks the religion question and the value of the data for society.

Dr Imogen Peck explores some of the struggles that occurred in early modern England over the commemoration of that most difficult of anniversaries: the execution of a King.

The period between the 1st and 4th centuries AD saw one of the most important transformations in history; the rise of a small underground religious movement called Christianity to become the dominant religion of Europe and the Western world.