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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

Richard III reburial special

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

Food from the past and the history of illegitimacy

Second World War

Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

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

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&ADid the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East

In Ancient Egypt, what was the afterlife?

My favourite place: Dominic Sandbrook

BBC History Magazine

Vote for this year’s History Hot 100

A still from a 1960 film about the Alamo, showing the chapel being covered by troops

Remember the Alamo! What happened in the 1836 siege and battle?

Picture of children being put to bed

Q&AWhat was 'pigging'?

Photo of archaeologist revealing a skull

General ancient history

Q&AWho was the first archaeologist?

Photo of a horse

Why do we say 'horse of a different colour'?

Photo of British coins

Q&AWhy do we have the letters 'FD' on our coins?

First World War

How did WW1 end?

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

The life of Keynes and a trip to Ancient Greece

Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

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