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Caratacus and Rome’s conquest of Britain, the Celtic king who fought for a decade, then won mercy in the Senate
When Rome invaded Britain in 43 AD, one Celtic prince refused to accept the new order and turned the conquest into a grinding war of resistance. This chapter follows Caratacus’ rise, his final defeat ...
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Rome’s war for Britain was not over, Caratacus in Wales, tribal coalitions, and a captive king’s famous speech
Claudius won the province, but Britain’s resistance reorganized around Caratacus, whose prestige and alliances kept Rome fighting year after year. This chapter follows the hard campaigns into Wales, ...
When looking for heroes of Wales, the Home Counties may not seem the most obvious starting place. Nevertheless, it was Hertfordshire which lay at the heart of the Iron Age Catuvellauni tribe and, on ...
Roman forces reached the borders of Wales in AD 48, five years after they had begun their conquest of Britain. At that time, of course, Wales did not exist in any meaningful sense. Its people, like ...
Archaeologists believe they have found the first pre-Roman planned town discovered in Britain. It has been unearthed beneath the Roman town of Silchester or Calleva Atrebatum near modern Reading. The ...
Just over the North Devon border in Somerset, on a windswept segment of Winsford Hill, sits a strange stone which is around 1500 years old. Measuring a little more than a metre in height, leaning at a ...
When looking for heroes of Wales, the Home Counties may not seem the most obvious starting place. Nevertheless, it was Hertfordshire which lay at the heart of the Iron Age Catuvellauni tribe and, on ...
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