I’ve been in York this weekend for the Eboracum Roman Festival. I’ll be blogging about that next but on the Friday before I indulged in some historical tourism and visited the Yorkshire Museum.
Eboracum was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia and, at its height, the largest town in northern Britain. The site […]
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Yes, it’s the time of year the Romans invade York. Along with the governor of Britannia and the mighty marching men of six legions (escaping from their humdrum 21st century lives) come a load of riff-raff and camp followers including a bunch of scribblers.
But the good news is that these are nine of […]
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‘Destruction’ by Thomas Cole, painted 1833–1836, part of a series ‘The Course of Empire’
Discussion of the the reasons for the ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire will go on forever and everybody will have their pet one. The classic book is The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, […]
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