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Inside one of Britain’s best Roman sites

In this episode of the Antiquities Travel Guide, we take an immersive journey into Vindolanda, a site widely considered to be ...
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Drought left Britain too hot to handle for the Romans

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction drawing of Hadrian’s wall, a rebellion within its garrison allowed the Picts to invade northern Britain during ...
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The collapse of Roman Britain doesn't add up!

Welcome to the story of How we Might have Mis-understood Roman Britain. This week we take a walk around west Hampshire and ...
EurekAlert!

Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti ...

Roman links to be 'reimagined' with museum grant

A Berkshire town's Roman heritage will be "reimagined" thanks to an £80,000 government grant. Reading Museum said it plans to ...
Newsweek

First Evidence of Julius Caesar’s Invasion of Britain Could Rewrite History of the Roman Empire

Despite the fact that historians have widely accepted the fact that Julius Caesar led a Roman invasion of Britain in the year 55 B.C., any physical evidence of that invasion has been completely ...
Observer

This Traveling Exhibition in the U.K. Recasts Gladiators as More Than Sacrificial Lambs

The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...
Moviefone

The Roman Invasion of Britain (2009)

The Roman Invasion of Britain is a British documentary television series. It was first aired in 2008 on the History channel. The three-part series explores the history of Roman Britain by tracing the ...
StrategyPage

Book Review: Defying Rome: The Rebels of Roman Britain

In Defying Rome, the prolific, multi-talented, British archaeologist and historian Guy de la Bedoyere, author of such works as Roman Britain: A New History(2010) and The Letters of Samuel Pepys (2009) ...
Nature

Roman Britain and the English Settlements

THIS volume on Roman Britain and the English settlements is the first (though not the first to be published) in a series of fourteen covering the history of England, edited by Prof. G. N. Clark. The ...
Nature

Roman Britain

MR. GORDON HOME'S account of “Roman Britain” in Messrs. Benn's attractive little “Sixpenny Library” is a model of concise popularisation. Apart from the many difficulties and obscurities which are ...
The Conversation

The Roman dead: new techniques are revealing just how diverse Roman Britain was

Our knowledge about the people who lived in Roman Britain has undergone a sea change over the past decade. New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white ...