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The topics covered in these audio clips include the invasion of Britain, Julius Caesar, Roman gods and goddesses, Roman buildings, Roman roads, Boudicca and resistance to Roman rule, Roman food ...

In AD 79 Agricola, the Roman governor of Britannia ... In one of the great ironies of history the Scottish tribal raids on the Romano-Britons helped to bring the peoples who created England ...

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 ...

The Romans, including other cultures, believed even numbers were unlucky. It's why Pompilius wanted the months to all have an auspicious 29 or 31 days. You can't do that, however, with a 12-month ...

Thank the Romans for that oddity ... with a 12-month calendar and get an odd number of days in the year because of a simple mathematical fact. Whenever you add odd numbers together an even ...