Get your boots on and head down to the River Thames with mudlark Lara Maiklem, as she discovers the history of London hidden in mud.

Cream buns, holiday parks, alcoholic dragons: who doesn't love a festival? Get your marker pen and circle these annual highlights from Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough's historical calendar.

It's time to get ready to face the world: apply your make-up, trim those whiskers and don those fishy angel wings ... and those fig leaves.

People, and elephants, are not always what they seem: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough has a gallery of figures from history who, not always knowingly, managed to dupe others.

Take a look at some of history's finest collectors' pieces: some desirable, some throwaway, and some downright unusual.

Need a little help making a wish, casting a curse or vanquishing an etheric vampire? Well, then, it's your lucky day - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and her assembled band of Time Travellers are here to help.

Can you solve these five bite-sized brainteasers from history - or guess the theme that unites them?

Our time-travelling correspondents brave the elements to bring you tales of battles on ice, apocalyptic storms and a historical cloud craze.

Travel through time and enhance your vocabulary with some of our favourite old words. Agnoiology, bartitsu, blackguardiana, palimpsest, telectroscope... what do they all mean?

Here are some tips from the past for the optimum sporting performance: warm up properly, try not to get injured, and absolutely no cheating allowed.