Invasion / Pre-Roman Britain
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Dun Carloway broch on the Isle of Lewis, one of the best preserved of the many fortified strongholds built in north and west Britain during the late Iron Age The Story of Roman Britain
BRITAIN BEFORE
THE ROMANS The island invaded by Claudius in AD 43 was a diverse realm with varied peoples and industries, influenced by trade with the Mediterranean. Barry Cunliffe explores Iron Age Britain
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TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Invasion / Big questions
A first-century AD Romano-British terracotta lamp showing a Roman ship. Julius Caesar’s first invasion was stymied by bad weather that damaged his fleet
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THE ROMAN INVASION
10 BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
CONQUEST The Claudian invasion of AD 43 was a triumph of Roman military might and civilisation against proud and steadfast native resistance. Or was it? Gillian Hovell answers 10 key questions about the start of the Roman occupation The Story of Roman Britain
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Invasion / Romans under attack
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“WE WILL FIGHT WELL BECAUSE WE ARE FREE” CALGACUS At the battle of Mons Graupius, AD 83 or 84
BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY
Despite the brutal suppression of British revolts against Roman rule, the empire’s writers tended to portray rebels such as Boudica in a surprisingly positive light. Charlotte Higgins seeks to explain this curious turn of events
LEFT: A detail from a second-century AD relief depicting a barbarian fighting a Roman legionary. The historian Tacitus made a point of lionising British rebel commanders’ exploits as a means of highlighting Rome’s moral and political deficiencies The Story of Roman Britain
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Britannia / Battle for Scotland
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A mounted Roman soldier battles a ‘barbarian’ in a detail from the marble Amendola sarcophagus dating from the second or third century AD. Rome launched successive campaigns against the people of Scotland
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SCOTLAND After the initial invasion of Britain, Rome quickly consolidated its hold on the south – but the north proved intractable. Miles Russell traces Rome’s ill-conceived campaigns in Scotland The Story of Roman Britain
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Invasion / Romans under attack
Britannia / The breakaway British empire
“WE WILL FIGHT WELL BECAUSE WE ARE FREE”
EXPLOITED BY EMPIRE
DID ROME BENEFIT BRITAIN?
CALGACUS At the battle of Mons Graupius, AD 83 or 84
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LEFT: A detail from a second-century AD relief depicting a barbarian fighting a Roman legionary. The historian Tacitus made a point of lionising British rebel commanders’ exploits as a means of highlighting Rome’s moral and political deficiencies
History lauds Rome’s ‘advanced’ civilisation, capable of creating the extraordinary glass Lycurgus Cup, as a benefit to barbarian Britons
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British rebels with a cause
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Roads, currency, calendars and sewers: the Romans introduced any number of advances to Britain – or so conventional wisdom claims. But was the Roman conquest really a great civilising opportunity for the British peoples, asks David Mattingly – or a period of prolonged military occupation and exploitation? The Story of Roman Britain
How Rome exploited Britain
ROMAN NUMISMATICS
In the third century AD, Britain was the epicentre of a massive rebellion that shook the Roman empire to its core. Kevin Butcher tells the story of Britannia’s usurper emperors
ART ARCHIVE
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Despite the brutal suppression of British revolts against Roman rule, the empire’s writers tended to portray rebels such as Boudica in a surprisingly positive light. Charlotte Higgins seeks to explain this curious turn of events
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BRITISH EMPIRE A coin showing Carausius, a “brilliant tactician” who forged his own rebel ‘British’ empire in AD 286 and foiled a Roman navy’s best efforts to dislodge him
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The usurper emperors
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