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What was the werewolf myth in Ancient Rome?

'Tomatina' festival in August 1999. (Photo by Müller-Stauffenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

9 weird and wonderful festivals through history.

Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had "much joy and pleasure in death". (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Did Anne Boleyn crave the crown?.

A portrait of the writer and antiquarian John Aubrey

John Aubrey: chronicler of the 17th century.

The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo

Why Waterloo fires our imaginations.

General prehistory

My favourite place: Ronald Hutton

Denis Dighton's painting shows the defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard at Waterloo

10 moments that decided the Waterloo campaign.

Corfu: a Greek island getaway that owes much of its popularity to the Venetians. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Corfu, Greece

James Watt: your guide to the pioneer of steam engine technology

Waterloo: what was the battle like for Wellington’s Redcoats?.

The perils of piety in Tudor England.

An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Magna Carta myths explained.

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club.

In pictures: medieval stained glass

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature.

BBC History Magazine

Dressed-up fleas, devil butterflies and the Thames whales: the strange ways nature has influenced human history

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about London’s first zeppelin raid in 1915.

Dying well; tears and sorrow on the death of a youth. Treasury of Wisdom, 15th century. (© The Art Archive/Alamy)

Heavenly dew: crying in the Middle Ages.

The many lives of India.

Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about.

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts.

Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

Did Britain doom the Lusitania?.

Jane Austen

My history heroJane Austen (1775–1817).

The stretch of the Great Wall at Mutianyu, China

General ancient history

My favourite place: The Great Wall of China

Merton College, Oxford.

History explorerMedieval universities.

Blasphemous Bibles and cannibals at sea: 4 bad days in history

Magna Carta: A turning point in English history.

Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

Mary I’s phantom pregnancy.

Magna Carta

Books interview with David Starkey: "The Magna Carta of 1215 was designed to create a revolutionary regime".