Roman Britain

C.E. Stevens searches the elusive world of ancient Britain.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Richard Cavendish remembers the death of Emperor Septimus Severus on February 4th, 211.

David Mattingly revisits an article by Graham Webster, first published in History Today in 1980, offering a surprisingly sympathetic account of Roman imperialism.

The emperor Hadrian presided over the Roman empire at its height, defined its borders and was one of the most cultured rulers of the ancient world. Neil Faulkner revisits his legacy, as the British Museum opens a major exhibition on his life and times.

David Mattingly says it’s time to rethink the current orthodoxy and question whether Roman rule was good for Britain.

Richard Cavendish recalls May 17th, 1257.

1,700 years ago this month, York saw the proclamation of a man who changed the course of the history of the world. Christopher Kelly introduces the Emperor Constantine.

Peter Furtado previews a major exhibition opening in York at the end of the month.

Archaeologist Miles Russell describes recent discoveries which overturn accepted views about the Roman invasion of Britain.

A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins.

Martin Henig, interviewed by Tony Morris, shares a beaker of wine with the Emperor Hadrian.

Unearthing the Cumbrian city's Roman past.