A Complete History of the Druids; their Origin, Manners, Customs, Powers, Temples, Rites, and Superstition; with An Inquiry into their Religion, And its Coincidence with the Patriarchal. — Lichfield: T.G. Lomax, 1810. — 68 p. Address. History of the Druids, &c. Description of the Druidical Temples, &c.
Robinson, 2011. — 320 p. In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400 years the island would be transformed. Within that period would see the rise of Londinium, almost...
Robinson, 2011. — 320 p. In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400 years the island would be transformed. Within that period would see the rise of Londinium, almost...
Routledge, 2006. — 320 p. When Roman troops threatened to seize the wealth of the Iceni people, their queen, Boudica, retaliated by inciting a major uprising, allying her tribe with the neighbouring Trinovantes. The ensuing clash is one of the most important - and dramatic - events in the history of Britain, standing testament to what can happen when an insensitive colonial...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 378 p. Roman Britain has given us an enormous number of artefacts. Yet few books available today deal with its whole material culture as represented by these artefacts. This introduction, aimed primarily at students and general readers, begins by explaining the process of identifying objects of any period or material. A series of themed...
Amberley Publishing, 2020. — 320 p. The British queens Cartimandua and Boadicea were two Celtic noblewomen, recorded by classical writers as part of a tradition of women who showed particular courage, ambition and political skill, and who were just as formidable in war as their husbands. They took on the status of Celtic Goddesses and were central players in the struggle...
Elsevier Science, 2011. — 400 p. — (Developments in Quaternary Sciences 14). The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about...
Amberley Publishing, 2012. — 255 p. Stretching 73 miles from coast to coast and reaching a height of about 13 feet, Hadrian's Wall should have been counted as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Today, a World Heritage site, it stands as the most imposing monument north of the Alps and attracts millions of visitors a year. Yet, despite all the excavation and research...
Thames & Hudson, 2014. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0500291144. Lucid and engaging...should take pride of place on the bookshelf of specialists and non-specialists interested in Roman Britain. —Minerva This illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province sets the Roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned. The...
National University of Ireland – Galway, 2013. — 258 p. The narrative structure of the Vita Germani Auctore Constantio is based on its protagonist's spiritual development from man to saint. In the early chapters, Germanus' character is defined by human actions and attitudes, as shown in the moments preceding his epiphany when he fights against election to the see of Auxerre....
Oxbow Books, 2017. — xii + 383 p. The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 256 p. There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the pre-Roman...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1974. — 312 p. By the time of Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 B.C., migratory movements had established close ties of kinship and common interest between the peoples who lived in Gaul and some of the inhabitants of Britain. Because the source material is so meager for much of early British history, Mr. Blair is careful to explain just how...
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1983. — 180 p. — (Britannia Monograph Series 4). The Vindolanda writing-tablets were discovered during the excavation seasons of 1973-4 and 1974-5. They are now in the possession of the British Museum, which acquired them by purchase in 1981. The long interval between discovery and publication requires a word of explanation. It is due...
Routledge, 2014. — 172 p. This study, first published in 1978, explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of the prehistoric economy are described by the author – colonisation and clearance; arable and pastoral farming; transhumance and nomadism; and hunting, gathering and fishing. These aspects have been brought together to formulate a structure...
Birlin Ltd., 2008. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1841587370. 2000 years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from Hadrian's Wall & built a new frontier across the Forth-Clyde isthmus, from modern Bo'ness to Old Kilpatrick. In this book, David Breeze tells the story of the invasion & of the building of the Antonine...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 494 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 64). The Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, was the most northerly frontier of the Roman Empire for a generation from AD 142. It is a World Heritage Site and Scotland’s largest ancient monument. Today, it cuts across the densely populated central belt between Forth and Clyde. In this volume, nearly 40...
Birlinn, 2008. — 128 p. Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from Hadrian's Wall & built a new frontier across the Forth-Clyde isthmus, from modern Bo'ness to Old Kilpatrick. In this book, David Breeze tells the story of the invasion & of the building of the Antonine Wall. In this...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 200 p. The lectures on which this publication is based were delivered as the Rhind Lectures to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in May 2019. The annual Rhind Lectures commemorate Alexander Henry Rhind (1833-1863), a Fellow of the Society renowned for his excavations (finds from which are now in the National Museum of Scotland) and publications. The...
William Collins, 2017. — 344 p. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. Wandering to...
Pen & Sword History, 2021. — 328 p. Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of Roman Britain and the Roman Empire throughout that period. The few books that there are...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 328 p. Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of Roman Britain and the Roman Empire throughout that period. The few books that there are...
Pen & Sword History, 2021. — 328 p. Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of Roman Britain and the Roman Empire throughout that period. The few books that there are...
London: The Country Book Club, 1953. — 120 p., illustrated by nearly 150 plates and diagrams. This book will appeal to all lovers of ancient history. The book aims to describe the manner in which our forefathers lived before the dawn of history. Contents include: Introductory; The Food Quest; Dwellings; Handicrafts; Mining and Trade; Communications; Hill-Forts; Burial; Sacred...
The History Press, 2013. — 194 p. Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a ‘golden age’ and at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain. The wealthy owners of a villa such as Chedworth felt themselves part of an...
The History Press, 2013. — 194 p. Chedworth is one of the few Roman villas in Britain whose remains are open to the public, and this book seeks to explain what these remains mean. The fourth century in Britain was a ‘golden age’ and at the time the Cotswolds were the richest area of Roman Britain. The wealthy owners of a villa such as Chedworth felt themselves part of an...
Harry N. Abrams, 2007. — 390 p. Boudica has been mythologized as the woman who dared to take on the Romans to avenge her daughters, her tribe, and her enslaved country. Her immortality rests on the fact that she almost drove the Romans out of Britain, and her legend has become the reference point for any British woman in power, from Elizabeth I to Margaret Thatcher. As Boudica has...
Overlook Press, 2006. — 400 p. Boudica has been mythologized as the woman who dared to take on the Romans to avenge her daughters, her tribe, and her enslaved country. Her immortality rests on the fact that she almost drove the Romans out of Britain, and her legend has become the reference point for any British woman in power, from Elizabeth I to Margaret Thatcher. As Boudica...
Routledge, 2014. — 250 p. There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book investigates a...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 267 p.
Cunobelin, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, ruled much of south-east Britain in the years before Claudius’ legions arrived, creating the Roman province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in, south-east Britian? Dealing with Britain in this period when a series of dynasties emerged...
Boydell and Brewer, 1996. — 190 p. This book brings together new archaeological, historical and palaeoecological approaches to the transition from the Romano-British to medieval Celtic economy between the fourth and ninth centuries CE. The articles include a reassessment of the end of the Romano-British economy, suggesting that the conventional interpretation - a sudden...
Routledge, 1987. — 223 pp. — ISBN: 0-203-44208-3. "In this age of high technology, mass communication and the passion to record even the most mundane details of everyday life in as many different ways as possible, it is sometimes hard to imagine a time when there was no writing, no sophisticated technology, and communications largely depended on word of mouth. Yet such...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2010. — 394 p. — (Routledge World Archaeology). — ISBN: 978–0–415–49026–9. Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times...
2nd Edition — Thames & Hudson, 2014. — 288 p. This illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province sets the Roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned. The author first outlines events from the Iron Age period immediately preceding the conquest in AD 43 to the emperor Honorius’s advice to the Britons in...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 264 p. The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of individual lives. This book is the first to infuse the story of Britannia with a beating...
Second Edition. — Third Millennium Publishing, 2017. — 146 p. Few problems in British history have proved as intractable as that of the origin and ethnic associations of the Picts. For although we may find numerous references to them within Roman and Celtic sources they have left us no historical texts of their own. So often we find the early Picts mentioned within histories of...
Routledge, 1995. — 250 p. — ISBN: 0-203-48108-9. The aim of this book is to explore the changing character and social roles of stone tools of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages in Britain, examining the changing material and social conditions under which tools were produced, acquired, used and deposited.
Archaeopress, 2019. — 187 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 53). — ISBN-13 9781789690972. — ISBN-10 1789690978. Performing the Sacra: Priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain' addresses a range of cultural responses to the Roman conquest of Britain with regard to priestly roles. The approach is based on current theoretical trends focussing on dynamics of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 296 p. Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style material culture ceased to be manufactured. Skills related to iron and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 296 p. Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style material culture ceased to be manufactured. Skills related to iron and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 296 p. Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many of the most quotidian and fundamental elements of Roman-style material culture ceased to be manufactured. Skills related to iron and...
Pimlico, 1991. — 448 p. The Earliest British Iron Age. Iron B and Iron C in Britain. Caesar's Expeditions. Caesar to Claudius. The Rebellion of Boudicca and its Aftermath. The Flavian Period. Hadrian's Frontier. The Antonine Wall and the Frontier in the 2nd Century. Severus and the 3rd Century. The Administration of Roman Britain. The Roman Army in Britain. The Towns. The...
University of Leeds, 2010. — 256 p. This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of cult of saints in Britain during Late Antiquity, utilising both textual and archaeological evidence. The study pursues question regarding when and why the cult of saints was introduced to Britain as well as the impact of the Anglo-Saxon conversion on native British cults. Chapters two and...
Routledge, 2007. — 312 p. What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in the Roman Empire, and in ancient society. Drawing on the...
Routledge, 2007. — 312 p. What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in the Roman Empire, and in ancient society. Drawing on the...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — xv, 348 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03863-9. How did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent cataclysm or an economic collapse. Instead, the structure of late antique society, based on the civilian ideology of paideia , was forced to...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 216 p. In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of an untold number of veterans, families, soldiers,...
Basic Books, 2018. — 192 p. Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts,...
Basic Books, 2018. — 192 p. From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's Wall. Stretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 114 p. Following the death of her husband, Boudica, queen of the Iceni tribe, is brutally attacked by the occupying Roman forces. Her home is pillaged, her daughters abused, and her land stolen from under her. Fearless, intelligent and determined, she manages to free her daughters and escape, returning with the might of an angry supporting army....
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 384 p. King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied. And in more recent times, there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to have...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 384 p. King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied. And in more recent times, there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to have...
Tempus, 2007. — 176 p. Elginhaugh is the only completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman empire. The excavator Professor Bill Hanson tells two interrelated stories: the processes involved in the discovery, excavation and interpretation of the evidence, and the nature of military life on the furthest northern frontier of the empire in the first century AD. We...
Routledge, 2014. — 300 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology). This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’ cemeteries of...
2nd edition — Routledge, 2017. — 420 p. The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of Roman expansion on local populations, through to the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period. The text has been comprehensively...
2nd edition — Routledge, 2017. — 420 p. The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of Roman expansion on local populations, through to the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period. The text has been...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 536 p. The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material culture that occurred in Britain during the Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) have long been a focus of research. In the past, however, there was a tendency for attention to be directed mostly to southern England and the increased...
Clarendon Press, 1926. — 208 p. In material culture the Romanization advanced no less quickly. One uniform fashion spread from the Mediterranean throughout central and western Europe, driving out native art and substituting a conventionalized copy of Graeco-Roman or Italian art, which is characterized alike by its technical finish and neatness, and by its lack of originality...
Random House, 2015. — 304 p. This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of "Roman Britain" has meant to those who came after Britain’s 400-year stint as province of Rome – from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered...
BAR Publishing, 2004. — 245 p. Many scholars have examined the building of Hadrian's Wall from the viewpoints of the order of construction and the responsibility of each legion for particular structures and lengths of curtain wall. Others have examined the design of the Wall and its structural elements. This book is concerned largely with the practical aspects of the physical...
Hambledon Continuum, 2005. — 320 p. Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion sent a shock wave across the empire. Who was this woman who defied Rome? Boudica: Iron Age...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 414 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–964141–3. In Hadrian's Wall: A Life , Richard Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of this world-famous ancient monument. Constructed on the orders of the emperor Hadrian during the 120s AD, the Wall was maintained for almost three centuries before ceasing to operate as a Roman frontier during the fifth century. The...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 400 p. This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 400 p. This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 400 p. This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the...
Robert Hale, 2017. — 389 p. Built around AD122, Hadrian's Wall was guarded by the Roman army for over three centuries and has left an indelible mark on the landscape of northern Britain. It was a wonder of the ancient world and is a World Heritage Site. Written by a leading archaeologist who has excavated widely on the Wall, this is an authoritative yet accessible treatment of...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2012. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-1848840973. The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it with the archaeological evidence, which is often contradictory. Archaeologists and historians all too often work in complete isolation from each other and this book hopes to show the...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 492 p. Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton’s captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 492 p. Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton’s captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid...
Brill, 1999. — xv + 387 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 199). This volume deals with the religions of the Roman soldiers in Britain and the religious interactions of soldiers and civilians. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological evidence, the discussion shows the complexities of Roman, Eastern, and Celtic rites, how each system influenced the ritual and liturgy of the others,...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2009. — 304 p. Roman Britain: A Sourcebook has established itself as the only comprehensive collection of source material on the subject. It incorporates literary, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for the history of Britain under Roman rule, as well as translations of major literary sources. This new edition includes not only recently discovered...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 361 p. This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from Hadrian's Wall, London and other sites across the country, and richly illustrated throughout...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 360 p. This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from Hadrian's Wall, London and other sites across the country, and richly illustrated throughout...
Routledge, 2014. — 224 p. Later Roman Britain, first published in 1980, charts the end of Roman rule in Britain and gives an overall impression of the beginning of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ of British history, the transitional period which saw the breakdown of Roman administration and the beginnings of Saxon settlement. Stephen Johnson traces the flourishing of Romano-British...
Routledge, 2014. — 224 p. Later Roman Britain, first published in 1980, charts the end of Roman rule in Britain and gives an overall impression of the beginning of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ of British history, the transitional period which saw the breakdown of Roman administration and the beginnings of Saxon settlement. Stephen Johnson traces the flourishing of Romano-British...
Routledge, 2020. — 374 p. Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland’s diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations during the twenty-fifth to eighth centuries BC. People’s lives were shaped by migrations, changing...
Oxbow Books, 2002. — 342 p. First published in 1990, this is a comprehensive atlas containing over 270 detailed and wide-ranging maps, figures, plans and site photographs on all aspects of Roman Britain. The maps cover political and military history as well as the physical geography of Britain and the view Roman geographers had of it. Evidence for economic activity, including...
Cornell University Press, 1998. — 336 p. Among the provinces long occupied by Rome, Britain retained the slightest imprint of the invading civilization. To explain why this was true, Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that contributed to the failure of the Romans. Drawing on literary sources and on recent...
The History Press, 2011. — 182 p. While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few will have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history. Examining the primary sources as well as the archaeological evidence for this second century king, David Knight convincingly refutes the generally accepted view...
Tempus, 2008. — 192 p. While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history. Examining the primary sources as well as the archaeological evidence for this second century king, David Knight convincingly refutes the generally accepted view expounded at the...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 192 p. The end of empire in the island of Great Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the fog clears and Britain re-enters the historical record, it is, unlike other former European provinces of the Western Empire, dominated by a new culture that speaks a language that is neither Roman...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 192 p. The end of empire in the island of Great Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the fog clears and Britain re-enters the historical record, it is, unlike other former European provinces of the Western Empire, dominated by a new culture that speaks a language that is neither Roman...
ABC publishing, 2013.
Second edition.
Have you ever wondered what civilisation brought the Bluestones 200 miles from Wales to Stonehenge? Or the reason why they undertook this monumental task? Then this book is a must for you. Robert John Langdon takes you back 10,000 years to a time when the last Ice Age melted leaving a series of smaller islands and peninsulas and not the...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 620 p. Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this period. From the rebellious chiefs and druids...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 620 p. Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this period. From the rebellious chiefs and druids...
McFarland, 2010. — 221 p. An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity, a belief in reincarnation, and a keen interest in...
Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. — 232 p. Ralph Merrifield’s "Roman London" is the first, chronologically, in a series of books that will give a portrait of the city of London at significant periods in its history. We sometimes think that bygone London must be dead and past, buried for ever beneath towering office blocks and sprawling suburban housing — but we are wrong. These books...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 704 p. Roman Britain is a critical area of research within the provinces of the Roman empire. It has formed the context for many of the seminal publications on the nature of imperialism and cultural change. Roman rule had a profound impact culture of Iron Age Britain, with new forms of material culture, and new forms of knowledge. On the other...
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1985. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0-7134-4364-2. Many books on Roman London have been written but none has concentrated on the city as a port. This is simply because much of the vital evidence has only recently been revealed. From 1979 to 1982, an intensive programme of rescue excavations was mounted near London Bridge and Billingsgate in advance of the imminent...
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2001. — 400 p. This is a narrative history based on a journey from Shetland, down the west coast of Scotland - taking in the Isle of Man and the Outer Hebrides - across to Ireland, back to Anglesey and the west Welsh coast, back to Ireland again and finally Cornwall. This journey lies at the heart of the book - the base from which the author strays...
Birlinn, 2001. — 400 p. This is a narrative history based on a journey from Shetland, down the west coast of Scotland - taking in the Isle of Man and the Outer Hebrides - across to Ireland, back to Anglesey and the west Welsh coast, back to Ireland again and finally Cornwall. This journey lies at the heart of the book - the base from which the author strays into the oral...
Thames and Hudson, 2016. — 288 p. Roman Britain was created not by impersonal historical forces, but by men and women, each driven by ambition, aspiration and passion. The Romans Who Shaped Britain explores the narrative of Britannia through the lives of its emperors, commanders, governors, officials and rebels. This rich cast of characters includes some, such as Caesar,...
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1982. — xvi, 384 p. Dr Morris began work on London in the Roman Empire in 1967, and had apparently completed the first draft by the early 1970s. He was at the time much taken up with other projects, including The Age of Arthur and his work on the Domesday Book, and was unable then to produce a final draft for publication. He was still rewriting...
Birlinn Ltd, 2022. — 320 p. The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empirе only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet they left major legacies. They laid the foundations for the medieval Scottish kingdom and their captivating carved stones are some of the most eye-catching yet enigmatic monuments in...
Birlinn Ltd, 2022. — 320 p. The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empirе only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet they left major legacies. They laid the foundations for the medieval Scottish kingdom and their captivating carved stones are some of the most eye-catching yet enigmatic monuments in...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. — 400 p. In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last retreat...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 312 p. The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just outside the center of York. Fifty years old when she died in the early third century, Julia Velva was probably from a wealthy family able to afford a fine monument. Patrick Ottaway uses the tombstone as the starting...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 312 p. The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just outside the center of York. Fifty years old when she died in the early third century, Julia Velva was probably from a wealthy family able to afford a fine monument. Patrick Ottaway uses the tombstone as the starting...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 400 p. A compelling, evidence-based narrative for an age of heroes and battles that saw one of the most momentous transformations in British history. The Long War for Britannia is unique. It recounts some two centuries of ‘lost’ British history, while providing decisive proof that the early records for this period are the very opposite of ‘fake...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 400 p. A compelling, evidence-based narrative for an age of heroes and battles that saw one of the most momentous transformations in British history. The Long War for Britannia is unique. It recounts some two centuries of ‘lost’ British history, while providing decisive proof that the early records for this period are the very opposite of ‘fake...
Five Leaves Publications, 2015. — 350 p. Derbyshire was the centre of Roman Britain. Derby, Chesterfield, Buxton and the White Peaks were the homes of forts, farms, garrisons and populations, and the county was criss-crossed by Roman roads. Their story was one of resistance from local tribes and the production of beautiful objects including Derbyshire Ware potter. Roman...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 480 p. South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of human occupation over many millennia. The machair strip, long uninhabited, is filled with hundreds of settlement...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 592 p. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and most intensively studied archaeological sites, and a host of original ideas concerning its economic and political history. This original study...
Routledge, 2004. — 150 p. This book draws extensively on the results of the latest work to present a challenging new account of the rise and fall of one of the principal towns of the Roman empire. Dominic Perring is the Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Archaeology and a former lecturer in archaeology at the University of Leicester, University of York, and American...
Taylor & Francis, 1991. — 161 p. — (The Archaeology of London). Precious little of Roman London survives and the destruction of Roman levels continues fast as new office foundations are sunk ever deeper into ancient levels. In recent years the close attention of the archaeologists of the Museum of London, encouraged by the co-operation of city developers, has allowed the...
Wessex Archaeology, 2017. — 124 p. — (Wessex Archaeology Occasional Papers). Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. The excavations found very little evidence for...
Harper Perennial, 2004. — 544 p. An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines...
Tempus Publishers, 2006. — 178 p. Francis Pryor maintains that early farming in Britain has been largely misunderstood, due to a loss of contact with the countryside and failure to understand prehistoric farming methods. To redress this problem, this book reconstructs the lives of prehistoric farmers, to provide details on crop cultivation and flock management.
Penguin, 2015. — 352 p. In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape , archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain. Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In Home, the Time Team expert explores the first nine thousand...
Apollo, 2021. — 320 p. A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscapes in fifteen 'scenes', shedding revelatory light on the lives of their inhabitants. In Scenes from Prehistoric Life , the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of...
Apollo, 2021. — 320 p. A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscapes in fifteen 'scenes', shedding revelatory light on the lives of their inhabitants. In Scenes from Prehistoric Life , the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of...
Apollo, 2021. — 320 p. A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscapes in fifteen 'scenes', shedding revelatory light on the lives of their inhabitants. In Scenes from Prehistoric Life , the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 368 p. A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role. One of the most haunting and enigmatic archaeological discoveries of recent...
Apollo Publishers, 2019. — 352 p. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most...
Amberley Publishing, 2010. — 192 p. A major new historical work, reinterpreting, reassessing and reevaluating the Roman invasion of Britain, from the perspective of one British family's relationship with the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This detailed and comprehensive book offers fresh research and analysis of the British provincial kings during the Roman occupation. The author's...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 291 p. — (BAR International Series 1547). After Rome conquered the western provinces, a major change in settlement patterns occurred. A network of chartered and unchartered settlements arose. In recent years study of one ill-defined group of settlements, often called “small towns,” has garnered significant attention. These settlements were important...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 310 p. — (Short Oxford History of the British Isles). The Roman period is where the past of the British Isles is first revealed through substantial written sources as well as archeology. This book distils recent archeological and documentary discoveries and advances in an accessible, concise manner for anyone interested in finding out more about...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 597 p. — ISBN-13 978-0192801388. In A History of Roman Britain, noted classical historian Peter Salway provides a rich account of Britain's centuries under Roman rule. Britain, Salway writes, was a place of fascination for the Romans — a fascination he brings to life with beautiful maps and illustrations and a thorough, authoritative narrative....
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 597 p. — ISBN-13 978-0192801388. In A History of Roman Britain, noted classical historian Peter Salway provides a rich account of Britain's centuries under Roman rule. Britain, Salway writes, was a place of fascination for the Romans--a fascination he brings to life with beautiful maps and illustrations and a thorough, authoritative narrative....
Clarendon Press, 1981. — 862 p. — (Oxford History of England). This entirely new volume in the Oxford ‘History of England series replaces R.G. ‘Collingwood’s part (‘Roman Britain’) of the classic known familiarly as ‘Collingwood and Myres’—Roman Britain and the English ' Settlements. The huge quantity of _archaeological discoveries and major developments in techniques of...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 78 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-19-285404-9. Britain was within the orbit of Graeco-Roman civilization for at least half a millennium, and for over 350 years part of the political union created by the Roman Empire that encompassed most of Europe and all the countries of the Mediterranean. First published as part of the...
New York: Roy Publishers, 1958. — 62 p. "The story of Prehistoric Man, in Britain as elsewhere, is a tale without characters. The people who inhabited our land, and who brought to it the slow changes which gradually raised man from the condition of the apes to the verge of civilisation, are all nameless to us: their languages (until the Celts) are unknown, and their thoughts...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 380 p. In this fully illustrated study, Niall Sharples examine the complex social relationships of the Wessex region of southern England in the first millennium BC. He considers the nature of the landscape and manner of its organization, the methods that bring people together into large communities, the role of the individual, and how the region...
History Press, 2012. — 192 p. The invasion of AD 43 began the Roman settlement of Britain. The Romans brought with them a level of expertise that raised iron production in Britain from small localised sites to an enormous industry. Rome thrived on war and iron was vital to the Roman military establishment as well as to the civil population.In this pioneering work, David Sim...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1958. — 207 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 9). This book on pre-Celtic Wessex does not attempt to deal in detail with the archaeology of the region which has been covered very adequately by L. V. Grinsell in his recent Archeology of Wessex . Its aim instead is to present in small compass a summary of its earlier prehistory, of man’s gradual...
Penguin, 2007. — 288 p. Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? Chris Stringer takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived here alongside hippos, elephants and...
1997 - Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd - ISBN: 1-84188-150-3. Who were the Celts? What part did they play in our land's history? In Celtic Britain, Homer Sykes embarks on a fascinating journey through the mysterious landscapes and artifacts bequeathed to us by the Celts. Over 120 evocative photographs take us from Cornwall, through England, Wales, and up to Scotland. We visit...
Boydell and Brewer, 1988. — 137 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 6). The Life of St Germanus, by Constantius of Lyon, is a contemporary account of a fifth-century bishop of Auxerre, who on two occasions came to Britain. Professor E.A. Thompson tries to extract as much information as possible from the Dlifeabout the religious situation in Britain at the time of Germanus' visits,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 508 p. — (Blackwell Companions to British History). — ISBN: 0-631-21823-8. This major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain spans the period from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. - Major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain. - Brings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates about this...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 464 p. Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain. It collects 487 inscriptions (mostly on stone, but also on metal, wood, tile and ceramic), the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy, so as to illustrate the history and character of Roman...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 464 p. Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain is based on the author’s 40 years’ experience of the epigraphy of Roman Britain. It collects 487 inscriptions (mostly on stone, but also on metal, wood, tile and ceramic), the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy, so as to illustrate the history and character of Roman...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 400 p. — (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents). The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like those found in the hot spring...
Thistle Publishing, 2015. — 372 p. She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips and carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her. So wrote Dio Cassius, one of a handful of Romans who commented on the queen of the Iceni who defied the most powerful military nation on earth - and nearly won. Whipped by her Roman overlords and with her two daughters...
Routledge, 2000. — 168 p. The Romans occupied Britain for almost four hundred years, and their influence is still all around us - in the shape of individual monuments such as Hadrians Wall, the palace at Fishbourne and the spa complex at Bath, as well as in subtler things such as the layout and locations of ancient towns such as London, Canterbury and Colchester, and the routes...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 273 p. In this book Dr Wallace makes a fundamental contribution to the study of urbanism in the Roman provinces. She attempts for the first time to present a detailed archaeological account of the first decade of one of the best-excavated cities in the Roman Empire. Delving into the artefact and structural reports from all excavations of...
Routledge, 2005. — 192 p. Affording a clearer depiction of women in the Late Iron Age and Roman Britain than currently exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological, inscriptional and literary evidence to present a unique assessment of women and their place during the Romanization of Britain. Analyzing information from over 4,000 burials in terms of age, health and nutrition, Watt...
Routledge, 2013. — 302 р. In Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain, first published in 1991, Professor Dorothy Watts sets out to distinguish possible Pagan features in Romano-British Christianity in the period leading up to and immediately following the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410. Watts argues that British Christianity at the time contained many Pagan influences,...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 248 p. Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital city. In addition to containing information on every site in London where Roman remains can be seen, the history of the foundation of the city and its subsequent development is meticulously...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 248 p. Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital city. In addition to containing information on every site in London where Roman remains can be seen, the history of the foundation of the city and its subsequent development is meticulously...
The History Press, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN 9780752462745, 0752462741. Revealing the city's hidden ritual and mythological landscape, complete with appendices on walking the ritual landscape today. A study of the almost forgotten ritual landscape which lies hidden beneath the streets of the modern city, this book reveals the city nobody knows—a vast and intricate network of...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2004. — 156 p. In this short book Graham Webster managed not only to describe in details the revolt of Queen Boadicea, queen of the Iceni Kingdom of east Anglia but also provides archaeological evidences to back up his narrative. The revolt of Queen Boadicea was one of the last major revolts against the Roman rule in England during the era of the Roman...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2004. — 156 p. In this short book Graham Webster managed not only to describe in details the revolt of Queen Boadicea, queen of the Iceni Kingdom of east Anglia but also provides archaeological evidences to back up his narrative. The revolt of Queen Boadicea was one of the last major revolts against the Roman rule in England during the era of the Roman...
BAR Publishing, 1982. — 272 p. — (BAR British Series 101). We are now in a position to disprove or at least call into question much of the accepted interpretation of the military history of Roman Britain in its later phases, but it is considerably more difficult to substitute another interpretation in its place. In this work no attempt has been made to re-write the military...
Independent Publishers, 2009. — 272 p. This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica...
University of Western Ontario, 2016. — 109 p. Language is one of the most significant aspects of cultural identity. This thesis examines the evidence of languages in contact in Roman Britain in order to determine the role that language played in defining the identities of the inhabitants of this Roman province. All forms of documentary evidence from monumental stone epigraphy...
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