This year marks 1,900 years since the beginning of the construction of Hadrian’s Wall. We know a lot about how it was built and who built, lived and worked on the wall, Douglas Jackson says. But what we can’t be sure is why it was built. Douglas, author of The Wall, wonders: was it just […]
Agricola’s victories in Britain
Agricola (AD40–93) was the only Roman general who could claim to have subdued the whole of Britain. Simon Turney has written the first biography of this important figure for nearly two millennia. He looks at why Agricola’s victories make him one of the great military figures in Roman history. A Roman general is marked by […]