Roman Britain
Roman Britain

Author: Patricia Southern

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1445609258

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The most authoritative history of Roman Britain ever published for the general reader.

The Roman Invasion of Britain
The Roman Invasion of Britain

Author: Birgitta Hoffmann

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1473826845

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The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it with the archaeological evidence, which is often contradictory. Archaeologists and historians all too often work in complete isolation from each other and this book hopes to show the dangers of neglecting either form of evidence. In the process it challenges much received wisdom about the history of Roman Britain. Birgitta Hoffmann tackles the subject by taking a number of major events or episodes (such as Caesar's incursions, Claudius' invasion, Boudicca's revolt), presenting the accepted narrative as derived from historical sources, and then presenting the archaeological evidence for the same. The result of this innovative approach is a book full of surprising and controversial conclusions that will appeal to the general reader as well as those studying or teaching courses on ancient history or archaeology.

The Ending of Roman Britain
The Ending of Roman Britain

Author: A.S. Esmonde-Cleary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1134554931

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This book explains what Britain was like in the fourth century AD and how this can only be understood in the wider context of the western Roman Empire.

Defying Rome
Defying Rome

Author: Guy De la Bédoyère

Publisher: Tempus Pub Limited

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780752444406

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Rome's power was under constant challenge. Nowhere was this truer than in Britain, Rome's remotest and most recalcitrant province. From the beginning to the end, a succession of idealists, chancers and reactionaries fomented dissent and rebellion. This book covers eleven rebellions and explains why Britain was a hot-bed of dissent.

Britain and the Vatican During the Second World War
Britain and the Vatican During the Second World War

Author: Owen Chadwick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-06-24

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780521368254

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The book studies the use made by the British government of its envoy, immured inside the Vatican from 1940 to 1944, and what the envoy made of such opportunities during the Second World War to help the Allied cause. We see the Vatican, the Fascist Italy, from 'inside', and so gain a new and rare perspective into the predicament of the papacy. Owen Chadwick gives insight into the workings of the Vatican, including such questions as the struggle to keep Italy out of the war, the relations between the Vatican and the Fascist government, the use which the British sought to make of Vatican radio, the question of condemning atrocities, the bombing of Rome, the fall of Fascism, the armistice between the Allies and Italy, the German occupation of Rome, and the escape line for British prisoners of war. The author has used several groups of hitherto unexplored archives, and makes a fresh contribution both to the history of the Second World War and to the modern history of the papacy.