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48 entries · 43 hours · 14 shows
Forty-eight entries and 43 hours, and the spread is the point: ten in the Julio-Claudians, seventeen in Roman life and army, nine in the fall of the west. Seventeen come from The Ancients, which has made the province something of a specialism. For the end of it, The Fall of Roman Britain is the 82-minute one.
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Julius Caesar 100 – 42 BC · 7
Part of Life of Caesar
The second crossing, with eight hundred ships and a storm that wrecked most of them. An hour and twenty on an expedition that took hostages and held nothing.
Part of HistoryHit
Seventy-five minutes running from Caesar's two landings in 55 and 54 BC to Agricola in the north, in one sitting. A single historian to camera, which suits a story usually told in fragments.
Seventy minutes on the first crossing, with two legions, no cavalry that arrived, and a beach landing against a defended shore.
Part of The Rest Is History
Part one, forty-eight minutes on 55 BC: scouts along the Kentish coast, a contested landing, and a Roman picture of Britons as savages the Romans half envied.
Part of The Ancients
With Simon Elliott
Simon Elliott on the two landings of 55 and 54 BC, neither of which left a garrison behind. Forty-two minutes on what Rome knew about Britain before it went, which was almost nothing.
The two British expeditions that achieved almost nothing militarily and everything politically, which is why Caesar wrote them up at length.
Part of Dan Snow's History Hit · Dan Snow on history's defining moments; only the Roman episodes are indexed
The Julio-Claudians AD 14 – 68 · 10
An hour on the British campaign: why Claudius needed it, how the army nearly refused to sail, and what sixteen days of imperial presence bought him.
With Elodie Harper
Elodie Harper on the revolt of AD 60, when Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium all burned and the province came close to being given up. Fifty-six minutes.
Part two, fifty-six minutes on AD 43 and on Claudius, underestimated by everyone around him and in need of a triumph he could not win himself.
With Oliver Davis
Oliver Davis on Iron Age Wales on its own terms, where the single word Celt covers several quite different ways of living. Fifty-two minutes.
AD 43, the crossing, and the campaign that finally stuck where Caesar's two had not. Forty-six minutes with the archaeologist Duncan Mackay on where the landings actually were.
Forty-three minutes on what the archaeology of late Iron Age Britain will actually support: the trade with Rome, the question of the druids, and the evidence for human sacrifice.
With Duncan Mackay
Duncan Mackay on the final battle, whose location is still unknown, and on why the candidates keep moving. Thirty-eight minutes.
Thirty-one minutes on what the evidence for Boudica actually is, which is two Roman writers and a burnt layer in three towns.
With Caitlin Gillespie
Caitlin Gillespie on Boudica as Tacitus and Dio built her: a barbarian queen written for a Roman audience to think about its own rulers with. Twenty-three minutes.
Part of Emperors of Rome
Eleven minutes on the invasion of 43: four legions, elephants at Colchester, and a triumph that an emperor with no military record badly needed.
The High Empire AD 98 – 192 · 4
With Rob Collins
Rob Collins on the fifth century at the wall, when the forts stayed occupied long after the pay stopped arriving. Seventy-five minutes on an ending that took generations.
With Andrew Birley
Andrew Birley, who runs the excavation, on the site that gave up the writing tablets: a birthday invitation, an order for socks and underpants. Fifty-three minutes on the only Roman voices in Britain that are not carved in stone.
With Frances McIntosh
Fifty-one minutes on the build itself: between eleven and sixteen feet high depending on which side of the Irthing you stand, some eighty Roman miles across northern Britain, and still an open question what it was actually for.
Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast · The companion to Ancient Warfare magazine, since 2008
Dominate and Christian Rome AD 284 – 395 · 1
With Caillan Davenport
Twenty-seven minutes on the recovery of Britain after the breakaway empire of Carausius, ten years in which the island minted its own coins.
The Fall of the West AD 395 – 565 · 9
Britain is the clearest case study in the whole collapse, because the coins stop, the pottery stops, and the archaeology shows a material standard of living falling off a cliff within a generation.
Part of Fall of Civilizations
The episode that started the series: an hour and a quarter on what it felt like when the empire stopped coming, built out of the archaeology of villas going quiet and coins running out. Alexey Sibikin's sound design carries the last ten minutes almost alone.
With Dominic Perring
Dominic Perring on Londinium from a timber drain of AD 47, the earliest dated structure on the site, to the empty walls of the fifth century. Sixty-one minutes on a river crossing nobody had thought worth a town.
With Tom Moore
Tom Moore on pre-Roman Britain as the archaeology has it: roundhouses, hillforts, chariots, feasting debris, metalwork sunk in rivers for the gods. Fifty-nine minutes on the society Caesar filed under barbarian.
With Peter Heather
Peter Heather on the Saxon migrations: mercenaries invited in, a Roman order that stopped paying, and how much of the population actually moved. Forty-eight minutes.
Part of The Fall of Rome Podcast
Forty-eight minutes on the province that collapsed hardest: coinage gone, pottery gone, and towns empty within two generations.
What happened in Britain once Rome left: rival kingdoms fighting over what remained. The episode gives the century after 410 its own hour.
Part of The Pax Romana Podcast
Twenty-three minutes on the province being told to look to its own defence in 410, and on how quickly the money economy stopped.
Roman Life, Army and Culture across the centuries · 17
Part of SandRhomanHistory
What happened in Britain after 410, following the archaeology where the written sources stop.
A documentary on how post-Roman Britain turns into medieval England, following the archaeology where the written sources stop.
Four and a half centuries of Roman Britain in one documentary, from Caesar's landing to the withdrawal.
Part of Greeced Lightning · Myths and movies with a doctor of classics; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part of The Delicious Legacy · Food history from a Greek gourmand; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part four, fifty-nine minutes on the decades after Boudica, when Rome decided the province was worth holding and sent Agricola north to prove it.
Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast
Murray Dahm on his own book about the end of Roman Britain and the Saxon settlement, with Marc DeSantis asking the questions. Fifty-seven minutes.
Part three, fifty-four minutes on the revolt of AD 60. Cassius Dio puts the dead at eighty thousand and blames the loss of the province on a woman.
With Rebecca Jones
Rebecca Jones on marching camps, the temporary earthworks an army threw up every single night. Fifty-two minutes on the evidence that shows where legions went when they built nothing permanent.
Fifty-one minutes on who actually crossed the North Sea, where the genetics and the archaeology disagree with the chronicles.
With Colchester Museum Curator Glynn
The Colchester Vase carries names scratched beside its fighters, which turns a decorated pot into a record of a real bout. Forty-seven minutes on gladiators this far north.
Part of Kings and Generals · Military history in campaigns and battles; only the Roman episodes are indexed
