In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...

The first Roman invasion took place across ... divide the people of Wales from those of south western Britain by establishing major fortresses at Gloucester and Usk. They realised that to conquer ...

The Romans occupied Britain for more than 350 years and some big names graced the British isles, from Caesar, Hadrian, and Septimius Severus. However, who was the very first Roman to conquer Britain?

A Roman-Britain Era Structure Discovered Under a Commercial Building Was 'Essentially a Town Hall' Time after time, many ...

Roman forces reached the borders of Wales in AD 48, five years after they had begun their conquest of Britain ... zone and a highland military zone. Fortresses, each capable of housing a legion ...

The Roman Wall That Split Britain Into Two Parts Hadrian’s Wall was a 73 mile barrier stretching from coast to coast, splitting the warlike north of Britain from the more docile south. It was ...

Roman forces reached the borders of Wales in AD 48, five years after they had begun their conquest of Britain. At that time, of course, Wales did not exist in any meaningful sense. Its people ...

At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile place with little to do. Like soldiers ever since, they spent much of ...

The invasion of Anglesey is an explicit acknowledgement of the threat they posed to Roman rule. Druidism was a religion which may have originated in Britain. In Welsh the word for Druid is Derwydd ...