ROMAN BRITAIN
By Guy de la Bédoyère
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visitors to this site since (roughly) late spring 2005 (it keeps restarting).
Welcome
to Roman Britain, a site with pages about the 367 years that Britain was
Britannia, a province of the Roman Empire. But there are also pages about my
other interests which include coinage, Egypt, aviation archaeology and the 17th
century diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. Site last updated on 24 December
2005.
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Main Pages New Links on this site
Christians at prayer –
late 4th century wall-painting from the Roman villa at Lullingstone,
Kent
If you wish to contact me you may do so
with this email address (left – though I cannot guarantee a reply) or c/o
Tempus Publishing Ltd, The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucs GL5 2QG (or
see the link below).
NOTE: the email address
has changed. If you contacted me before on the UK2.net one, abandon that and
use this Yahoo one.
http://www.tempus-publishing.com/contacts.asp
If you want me to do a public
talk or appearance, by all means contact me on this email address.
But if you want to
CONTACT me:
1. Because you’re
working for a TV production company
2. Because you‘re a
publisher or author who wants to use one of my pictures
or
3. Because you have a
find you want me to identify
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Britannia
– the Romans
introduced the figure of Britannia to coinage. This page shows Britannia
through the ages from the year 119 to 2005.
Colchester’s
Roman Circus – one of the
most exciting recent discoveries is a Roman chariot stadium in Colchester. Read
the news here, and follow the links to find out more.
1. THE
ROMAN ARMY IN BRITAIN
Auxiliary - the auxiliary forces
of the Roman army in Britain
Legions - the legions of the
Roman army in Britain
2. ROMAN
BRITAIN BACKGROUND
Carausius - rebel emperor in
Britain from 286-293
Dates and History
- of
Roman Britain
Gods and Goddesses of
Roman Britain A list of all the written evidence for gods and goddesses in Roman
Britain
Roman Villas in Britain
- a summary of what villas looked like and how
they were built.
People of Roman Britain -
potted biographies of the main personalities in Roman Britain.
Evidence for Roman Towns in Britain
- the historical and epigraphic background.
The full
text of Roman Villas and the Countryside (Batsford/English Heritage
1993). I’m sorry – the large size of this file means I’ve had to remove it from
the website.
3. BOOKS
AND OTHER SOURCE MATERIAL
Books – a list of the books I
have written, now (November 2005) redesigned and updated
RIB - Roman Inscriptions of
Britain in a list, with the texts at INSCRIPTIONS
4. COINS
English Milled
Coinage – the new coins issued from 1663 on
Love Tokens – coins engraved with details of births or deaths. Some can be traced,
some cannot. They’re all fascinating.
Britannia
– the
Romans introduced the figure of Britannia to coinage. This page shows Britannia
through the ages from the year 119 to 2005.
5. EGYPT
The Ramasseum – the Ramasseum (or
Ramesseum), the mortuary temple of the pharaoh Ramesses II, is probably the
finest of all the ruins in Western Thebes. It’s one of my favourite buildings.
I’m constructing a page so you can visit the building too. The page includes a
unique image – I’ve joined two halves of a statue. The top half is in the
British Museum and has been there since 1817. The bottom half is still in the
temple.
5. OTHER INTERESTS
Yes, even I can find Roman Britain a bit
too much. This is me (right) at the age of 5, and my brother, bored rigid after
being taken to see Fishbourne Roman Palace being excavated in the summer of
1963. The mosaic is the famous dolphin and cupid floor prominently displayed at
Fishbourne to this day.
Aircraft – I do also have an interest in
aircraft, especially of the Second World War, and have a pilot’s licence.
Dinosaur - dinosaurs in the
ancient world
I have
written a number of genealogy articles for Your Family Tree magazine and Practical
Family History – you can read the remarkable experience I had with
tracing an eighteenth-century bible owner’s living descendants here: The Bible of Mary
Duck
John Evelyn
(1620-1706)
- savant, diarist, gardener, writer, friend of
Samuel Pepys and co-founder of the Royal Society
Questions – I’m often asked about
my name and other things. I’ve posted some of these here, with the answers.
OTHER LINKS ON ROMAN BRITAIN AND CLASSICAL SOURCES
http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/ind_site_map.htm
- a general site, as is:
http://www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.morgue.demon.co.uk/
- a site about the Roman army
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/education/romanbritain/home.html
- the British Museum’s collections
Classical
Civilisation Resource Centre – with stacks of other links
There's more information at my wife's teaching page.
