ROMAN
By Guy de la
Bédoyère
Welcome to Roman Britain, a site with
pages about the 367 years that
Site last
updated on
for
to buy my books. amazon links will
take you straight to discounted offers
for other links on roman
to contact me
Classical Civilisation students at KSHS
may click here
to find out more about the course
Gold medallion from
in AD 296 after
his forces crushed the rebel regime of Carausius (AD
286–293) Allectus (293–296)
CONTACT
DETAILS
If you wish to contact me you may do so
with this email address (left – though I cannot guarantee a reply) or c/o:
or
Please note: I
am often contacted by students or other people with queries or questions about
archaeological or numismatic matters. In general, IF I have time (and I make no
guarantee of this), I’m happy to field queries as a matter of goodwill but
please keep them as brief as possible – I simply haven’t time to provide
complex advice or detailed answers, especially for people who already have
tutors, course notes and reading lists at their disposal. There are two
reasons:
1. I won’t
necessarily have the detailed information you want to hand, and
2. Being
unfamiliar with a person’s course there’s always the possibility I’d
unintentionally mislead that person, and as a matter of preference I would urge
you to seek advice from your tutor(s) first.
I’m sorry to
say that, regrettably, in a few instances one or two adult students have taken
exception to the idea that I’m not available at their beck and call and
subjected me to the most extraordinary tirades. One actually wrote to complain
that this website did not have a page devoted to her specific essay title,
though that was by no means the rudest!
FILMING, LECTURES
If you wish to invite me to give a lecture
or talk, by all means contact me on the email address illustrated above and I
will let you know whether I am available and what the charge is. If you are
contacting me from an archaeology group attached to a university I will do what
I can to accept your invitation and look favourably
on a modest or nil charge apart from expenses, but this depends very much on
location and date. Please however note that I no longer work as a fulltime
freelance historian, writer and broadcaster. I now work fulltime as a History
and Classical Civilisation teacher at Kesteven and Sleaford High School
(see the school’s Wikipedia entry), where I will be remaining for the foreseeable
future and this makes it very difficult to arrange giving talks, especially
months and months ahead.
Classical Civilisation students at KSHS
may click here
to find out more about the course.
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
Then and read that page first!
To see sample pages from
my new book Letters of Samuel Pepys
PAGES ON THIS
ROMANIZATION: one of the more
pointless debates these days is whether or not Romanization is an obsolete word
or not. I think this is a) utter nonsense and b) misleading, and here I explain
why.
THE END OF ROMAN
1. THE ROMAN ARMY IN
(CLICK ON THE COINS)
AUXILIARIES: the
auxiliary forces of the Roman army in
LEGIONS: the legions of the
Roman army in
2. ROMAN
(CLICK ON THE COINS)
CARAUSIUS: rebel
emperor in
DATES
GODS
ROMAN VILLAS IN
PEOPLE OF ROMAN BRITAIN potted
biographies of the main personalities in Roman Britain.
THE END OF ROMAN
3. BOOKS
To buy my books click on the picture:
You’ll find a link by most of the books that will take you straight to
discounted copies at Amazon!
Roman
Inscriptions of
To see sample pages from my new book Letters of Samuel Pepys
4. COINS
(CLICK ON THE 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:
Britannia through the ages from the year 119 to 2005.
5.
– for the Ramasseum (or Ramesseum), the
mortuary temple of the pharaoh Ramesses II, is
probably the finest of all the ruins in
5. OTHER
INTERESTS
Yes, even I can find Roman Britain a bit too much. Here I am at a 2007 shoot for Time Team at Binchester Roman Fort after various scenes with Mick Aston
and Tony Robinson where we talked about anything BUT Roman Britain between
takes. Time Team is, incidentally, no more.
AIRCRAFT – I do also have an interest in aircraft,
especially of the Second World War, and have a pilot’s licence.
Or, rather, I did – it costs too much so I’ve let it lapse.
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. for details.
for JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706) - savant,
diarist, gardener, writer, friend of Samuel Pepys and co-founder of the Royal Society
for John Evelyn’s texts
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
http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/ind_site_map.htm
- a general site, as is:
http://www.dot-domesday.me.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
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