Roman forearm handshake - true gesture or Hollywood codswallop?

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When two people meet formally for the first time, it’s customary to shake hands. Similarly, it’s something you do on parting, offering congratulations, expressing gratitude, or completing an agreement. In sports or other competitive activities, it’s also done as […]

April 22nd, 2015 | Tags: , , | Category: Alternate history, Provocations, Research, Roman life, Roman military, Roman traditions, Women warriors | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

AURELIA cover image!

Yesterday, I signed off this beautiful, beautiful cover for AURELIA, the fourth Roma Nova alternate history thriller. SilverWood Books have done it again! The sharp-eyed will see the new mosaic pattern in the inner shield echoed around the eagle itself. The silver lettering and eagle mark out a change: the next three books shift back […]

April 9th, 2015 | Tags: , , , | Category: Alternate history, AURELIA, Books, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, Roma Nova, SUCCESSIO | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Governing Britain the Roman way

Ever since Julius Caesar had a pop at the northern isles in 55/54BC as part of his Gallic Wars campaign (and didn’t get very far), Britain has been difficult to govern. Whether wars of succession or civil wars, barons or peasants v. kings, Saxons v. post-Romans, constitutional government v. chartists, Fenians, suffragists, unions or agitators, […]

April 6th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Insights, Roman life, Roman military, Roman traditions, Romans | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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