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Stockton villager Willy Adam’s book The Afnac tells the story of brotherhood, the sons of Cunedda, invading from beyond the ...
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 ... which makes Defying Rome not only a ...
But so much of how we imagine life back then has been shaped by the big screen, videogames and books. What’s fact and what’s fiction? We’ve looked at the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD ...
And thanks to a book written all those years ago by the famous Roman commander Julius Caesar, we also know one reason why the Romans wanted to come to Britain in the first place. They wanted to ...
A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367 ... claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" or "things that happened") that ...
Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The discovery involves a skeleton found in 2004 at Driffield Terrace in York ...
Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern frontier rebelled and three different "barbarian" groups invaded Roman Britain, with the Picts atta ...