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Banquet at a wealthy home in ancient Rome. (Photo by North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy)

Dormice, ostrich meat and fresh fish: the surprising foods eaten in ancient Rome.

From rations to ready meals: the transformation of the nation’s diet.

In pictures: strange creatures through history

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France.

In Ancient Egypt, what was the afterlife?.

My favourite place: Dominic Sandbrook

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Frames in focus

The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder.

The medieval city of Carcassonne

My favourite place: Languedoc, France

William Hogarth

My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

A British major pictured in German captivity

"How I fell captive to the Germans": the experience of First World War PoWs.

Parts of the Magna Carta

The amazing legacy of Magna Carta.

A brief history of medieval magic

Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel: Richard III’s heir who 'had a stronger claim to the throne than Henry VII'

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam.

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary.

5 photographs that (you didn’t know) changed everything.

Gothic wonder: 5 spectacular buildings of medieval England.

Thomas Cromwell’s life before Henry VIII.

Dinner at a Victorian workhouse

History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse.

Selfridges: 7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the department store

Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner.

A statue of Aphrodite

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history.

Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth: a ‘staggeringly authentic’ WW1 film says daughter Baroness Shirley Williams.

Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war.

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: early Victorian photography

Bathhouse

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine.

My favourite place: Sean McGlynn