ROMAN
By Guy de la Bédoyère MA FSA FRNS
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367 years that
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Gold medallion from
in AD 296 after his forces crushed the rebel regime of Carausius (AD 286–293) Allectus (293–296)
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with this email address (left – though I cannot guarantee a reply) or c/o:
1.
2. Tempus Publishing at
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Stroud, Gloucs GL5 2QG,
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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 AND
TALKS
If you want me to do a public talk or
appearance, 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. Please
however note that I am no longer a fulltime freelancer and my available time is
limited. In September 2007 I started on the Graduate Teacher Programme at the very excellent Kesteven and Sleaford High School (see the school’s Wikipedia entry), where I will be remaining for the
foreseeable future teaching History with, from September 2008, Classical Civilisation.
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 SITE
NEW LINKS (CLICK
ON THE COINS)
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 Britain
2. ROMAN
BRITAIN BACKGROUND
(CLICK ON
THE COINS)
CARAUSIUS: rebel emperor
in
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
PEOPLE OF ROMAN
THE END OF ROMAN
3. BOOKS
AND OTHER SOURCE MATERIAL
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 Britain
in a list, with the texts at
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.
AIRCRAFT – I do also have an interest in
aircraft, especially of the Second World War, and have a pilot’s licence.
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. 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
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
Classical
Civilisation Resource Centre – with stacks of other links
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