‘The Discovery of Britain’ Review: Atlas of Ancient Albion

In modern Britain, all roads lead to London, but one can still find traces of older routes and borders that once subdivided ...
History Time on MSN

The final collapse of Roman Britain, barbarian invasions, imperial abandonment, and the end of an era

This video traces the final decades of Roman Britain, as invasions, usurpers, and imperial neglect stripped the province of protection and purpose. It follows how Rome’s withdrawal, the rise of new ...
Hyperallergic

What Can Shackled and Beheaded Skeletons Reveal About Roman Servitude?

Roman era fetters with central padlock, iron, Great Casterton, UK (Image by permission of the Museum of London Archaeology company MOLA) Two different discoveries at sites within Roman Britain have ...
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 ...
New Scientist

Britain saw centuries of economic growth under Roman rule

After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of a kind once thought to be limited to modern industrial societies. That is ...
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 ...
Newsweek

‘Extraordinary’ Roman Fort Discovered That Likely Housed 500 Soldiers

An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...
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 ...
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 ...