Roman britain

A FASCINATING map reveals the ancient Roman roads Britons still use every day. The 2,000-year-old highways include key routes around London, Manchester, Cardiff and Bath. The map shows some of the …

From 5,500BC to how you commute to work today.

A map of post-Roman Britain showing the advance of the Angle and Saxon tribes.

The map of the UK's Roman roads, towns and cities, was created by Mr Sasha Trubetskoy, a student studying statistics at the University of Chicago.

Life in the Early Medieval Period was difficult. As has been seen in previous posts, there was a very limited and often misinformed view of the human body and disease. As cities had gro…

The Roman Empire’s rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world.

I’ve been thinking recently about post-Roman Britain and the accepted version of how the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, led by warrior leaders, displaced the native British and created the Anglo-S…

Dark Age History: The Core Battles of Arthur Dux Bellorum in Flavia ...

In today's terms, it's hard to fathom how much of the world the Romans once controlled. At its peak, the Roman Empire spanned from Hadrian's Wall in Scotland...

As the empire slowly retreated in the fifth century AD, Roman Britain came under attack from the west, east and north.