Tag: Roman Britain
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Roman Wales: a letter to Charlotte Higgins
Dear Charlotte A few months ago, in a second-hand bookshop in Tideswell, I came across a copy of your book Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain. I bought it, and finally I’ve got round to reading it. I know I’m late to the table – you published the book in 2013. But I thought…
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Magnus Maximus, man and memory
Doing some research recently on the Roman fort and settlement of Segontium I found myself face to face with a Roman emperor, Magnus Maximus. His story is interesting but not unusual. Later memory of him, especially in his guise as Macsen Wledig, is singular. His face stares out of coins he had minted to cement…
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Caratacus, Caradog, Caractacus
If Calgacus might be thought of as the earliest known anti-imperialist Scotland has produced, Wales has some claim on an earlier native leader of resistance to the Roman occupation of Britain, Caratacus. He’s a figure well worth excavating, as an historical character and as a focus of myth-making in the centuries since his time. 1 …