Neil MacGregor explores the role and expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world. Produced in partnership with the British Museum.
Neil MacGregor explores the role and expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world. Produced in partnership with the British Museum.
Neil MacGregor continues his series on shared beliefs with a focus on those faiths seen as a threat to the state.
A plain board, to be found on a 17th-century Japanese roadside, offers generous rewards to anyone who informs on Christians. At almost exactly the same time a print from France depicts the officially sanctioned destruction of a Huguenot Church just a few miles east of Paris.
Producer Paul Kobrak
Produced in partnership with the British Museum Photograph (c) The Trustees of the British Museum.