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Where did the Celts Originate from?
What were the Lands of the Celts?
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Farming in Celtic Britain
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Celtic Religion & Mythology
Celtic Craftsmen and Artisans
What role did animals play in Celtic Mythology?
Roman Conquest & Occupation of Britain
Roman Britain Timeline
Julius Caesar’s Invasion
Caligula and the Second Invasion of Britain
The Claudian Invasion of Britain (43AD)
The Tribes Revolt (47 AD)
The Brigantian Revolt (52 – 57 AD)
Boudica and the Iceni Revolt (AD 60–61)
Who was Boudica?
Boudica – Classical References
What did Boudica look like?
Boudica, Boudicca or Boadicea?
Was Boudica a High Priestess?
The Causes of the Iceni Revolt (60AD)
Boudica’s Attack on Colchester (Camulodunum)
Boudica’s Revolt and the sack of London (Londinium)
Boudica and the Fall of Verulamium (St Albans)
Boudica & The Battle of Watling Street
The Consequences of the Boudican Rebellion
Roman Civil War and its effect on Britain (AD68)
The Roman Military of Britain
People of Roman Britain
Life in Roman Britain
Roman Industry and Crafts
How did the Romans Rule Britain?
The Development of Roman Towns
Roman Sites in Britain
A-Z of Places of Roman Britain
Roman Sites to visit in South East England
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The Druids and Druidism
The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts
Ancient Celtic Religion & Beliefs
The Celtic Otherworld
Welsh Mythology & the Mabinogi
Dôn
Penarddun
Beli Mawr
Goewin
Math
Gofannon fab Dôn
Arianrhod of the Silver Wheel
Gilfaethwy mab Dôn
Amaethon fab Dôn
Gwydion fab Dôn
Elestron fab Dôn
Dylan ail Don
Lleu Llaw Gyffes
Eufydd uab Dôn
Blodeuwedd
Llŷr
Heveydd Hen
Rhiannon
Manawydan fab Llŷr
Branwen ferch Llŷr
Brân the Blessed
Efnisien
Euroswydd
Nisien
Hafgan, Lord of Annwn
Gwyn ap Nudd
Arawn, Lord of Annwn
Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed
Matholwch, King of Ireland
Pryderi, Lord of Dyfed
Where did the Celts Originate from?
Celtic Arms & Armor
The Celtic Tribes of Britain
An Overview of the Historic Ages of Britain
Festivals & the Celtic Year
The Roman Military of Britain
Roman Army: Structure & Soldiers
Roman Legions: From Tribal Levy to Imperial Legion
Roman Legions: Structure and Ranks
Roman Legions: The Time of Caesar
Roman Legions: Formations
Roman Legionaries: Armour
Roman Cavalry
Development of Roman Mailed Cavalry
Roman Legionaries: Centurions
Roman Legionaries: Veterans
Roman Legionaries: Weapons
Roman Legionaries: Standards
The Roman Navy
Roman Frontier Systems in Britain
The Fosse Way Frontier
The Antonine Wall
Glen Blocking Forts & Gask Ridge c.AD85
The Stanegate Frontier c.AD105
Hadrian's Wall AD122
The Saxon Shore Forts cAD250
Military Units of Roman Britain
Roman Legions of Britain
Legio VII Claudia
Legio X Equestris
Legio XX Valeria Victrix
Legio IX Hispana
Legio XIV Gemina
Legio VIII Augusta
Legio VI Victrix
Legio II Adiutrix
Legio II Augusta
Legio XXII Deiotariana
Legio XXII Primigenia
Catervae Britanniarum - The Irregular Auxiliary Units of Britain
Alae Britanniarum - The Auxiliary Cavalry Wings of Britain
The Auxiliary Infantry Cohorts of Britain
The Praetorian Guard
Numeri Exploratorum - The Companies of Scouts
Classis Britannica - The British Fleet
Roman Fortresses, Forts and Camps
Legionary and Vexillation Fortresses
The Structure of a Roman Fort
Roman Forts and Fortlets in England
Forts and Fortlets in Wales
Forts and Fortlets in Scotland
Temporary Marching Camps in England
Temporary Marching Camps in Scotland
Temporary Marching Camps in Wales
Roman Military Glossary
Life in Roman Britain
How did the Romans Rule Britain?
The Development of Roman Towns
Roman Villas - Farms
Roman Villas - A House in the Country
Roman Industry and Crafts
The Roman Gods
The Gods of Roman Britain
Nemeton - Religious Groves
The Roman Calendar
Roman Festivals and Games
Roman Festivals - Saturnalia
Mining in Roman Britain
Latin Abbreviations and Acronyms
Roman Units & Currency
Roman Numerals - The Roman Numeric System
Roman Conquest & Occupation of Britain
Julius Caesar's Invasion (55 BC & 54BC)
How did Caesar’s invasion effect Britain?
Julius Caesar's First Invasion of Britain (55 BC)
Julius Caesar's Second Invasion of Britain (54 BC)
Caligula & the 2nd Invasion of Britain (40AD)
Claudian Invasion and Conquest (43-60AD)
The Claudian Invasion of Britain (43AD)
Why did the Emperor Claudius invade Britain in 43AD?
The Battle of Medway (43AD)
Roman Advance from the Medway to Camulodunium
Emperor Claudius' Victory Celebrations
Who were the Eleven British Kings who surrendered to Claudius?
The Military Campaign of Aulus Plautius (AD43-46)
Campaigns of Ostorius Scapula (47-52AD)
The Tribes Revolt (47 AD)
Caratacus's Last Stand (50AD)
Trouble in Brigantia (52 - 57 AD)
Aulus Didius Gallus (52-57AD)
Quintus Veranius (57/58AD)
Suetonius Paulinus (58–61AD)
The Conquest of Wales and Southern England
Boudica and the Iceni Revolt (cAD60-61)
Boudica & The Battle of Watling Street
Boudica and the Fall of Verulamium (St Albans)
Boudica’s Attack on Colchester (Camulodunum)
The Causes of the Iceni Revolt (60AD)
What did Boudica look like?
Was Boudica a High Priestess?
Boudica, Boudicca or Boadicea?
Recovery After the Boudiccan Rebellion
Who was Boudica?
Boudica's Revolt and the Sack of London (Londinium)
The Consequences of the Boudican Rebellion
Boudica - Classical References
Consolidation and Pacification (61-78 AD)
Publius Petronius Turpilianus (61/2-63AD)
Marcus Trebellius Maximus (63 -69AD)
Roman Civil War and its effect on Britain (AD68)
Marcus Vettius Bolanus (69 -71AD)
The Brigantian Revolt (69AD)
Quintus Petilius Cerialis (AD71-73/4)
Sextus Julius Frontinus (73/4–77/8AD)
Agricola & Caledonia (77-117AD)
Gnaeus Julius Agricola (AD77/8-83/4)
Agricola Administration Reforms (78AD)
Agricola's Forces
Consolidating the Lands of the Brigantes (78AD)
Agricola & the Conquest of the Ordovices (77AD)
Advancing Beyond Brigantia (79AD)
Who was Calgacus?
Consolidating the Lowlands - Agricola's Forth Season (80AD)
Lands of the Novantae - Agricola's Fifth Season (81AD)
The Battle of Mons Graupius (82AD)
Agricola's Sixth Season (82AD)
Agricola's Forts and Camps
The Mutiny of the Cohors Primae Ubiorum
Forts of the First Flavian Period (AD85–c.90)
Forts of the Second Flavian Period (c90–105AD)
Roman Britain Timeline
Hadrianic Britain (117-136AD)
Forts of the Hadrianic Period
Antonine Period (136–192AD)
The Antonine Invasion of Scotland
Forts of the First Antonine Period
Forts of the Second Antonine Period
Severus and the Third Century (192–259AD)
Forts from the Severan Campaigns in Scotland (222–224AD)
Carausius and the Late Third Century
Constantine and Early 4th Century
The Great Conspiracy & Late 4th Century Britain
Prelude to the Barbarian Conspiracy
Was Magnus Maximus part of the Gothic Uprising?
Religion and the Barbarian Conspiracy
Who was Magnus Maximus?
Magnus Maximus in Welsh legend
References for Magnus Maximus
The Great Conspiracy
References for the Barbarian Conspiracy
Constantine III (Western Roman emperor)
The Revolt of 407
Gaul in the early 5th Century
Roman Empire 364-411AD
Post Roman Britain
The Rise of the Kingdoms
Who was Vortigern?
Who Was Ambrosius Aurelianus?
King Arthur: Historical or Legendary?
Historical King Arthur: References
Historical King Arthur: A Dark Age King?
Historical King Arthur: Breton King?
Historical King Arthur: Riothamus?
Historical King Arthur: A Silurian King?
Historical King Arthur: Cuneglas?
Historical King Arthur: St. Arthmael?
Legendary King Arthur: The Welsh Myths
Legendary King Arthur: Post-Galfridian Myths
Legendary King Arthur: The Pre-Galfridian Heroes
Mabon ap Modron
Taliesin
Ysbaddaden
Beli Mawr, son of Manogan
Creirwy
Creiddylad
Culhwch
Gwyddno Garanhir
Bladud
Modron
Nimue, Lady of the Lake
Olwen
Afallach
Lludd Llaw Ereint
King Arthur (Pre-Galfridian)
Ceridwen
Legendary King Arthur: The Post-Galfridian Characters
People of Roman Britain
British Celtic Nobles of Roman Britain
Roman Governors of Britania
Who were the Roman Consuls?
Roman Emperors
Emperor Hadrian - Rome's Absent Ruler
Roman Sites in Britain
Iron-Age hillforts
Hill Forts of the Silures
A-Z of Places of Roman Britain
Temples and Shrines of Roman Britain
Hadrian's Wall
Literary References
Julius Caesar: The Alexandrian War
The Gallic Wars: Julius Caesar
Sextus Julius Frontinus: Stratagems
Cornelius Tacitus - Agricola
Cornelius Tacitus - The Annals (Books 1-8)
Cornelius Tacitus - The Annals (Books 11-16)
Arrian of Nicomedia - Order of battle against the Alans
Julius Caesar: The Spanish War
Historia Augusta - The Life of Hadrian
Florus: The Epitome of Roman History
Titus Flavius Josephus: The Jewish War (Books 5-7)
Titus Flavius Josephus: The Jewish War (Books 1-4)
Julius Caesar - The Civil War
Plutarch's - Plutarch's Lives - Volume 5
Plutarch's - Plutarch's Lives - Volume 3
Plutarch's - Plutarch's Lives - Volume 2
Plutarch's - Plutarch's Lives - Volume 1
Plutarch's - Plutarch's Lives - Volume 4
Vegetius - The Military Institutions of the Romans (De Re Militari)
Julius Caesar - The African War
Welsh Medieval Literature
The Book of Aneirin
Y Gododdin
The Gwarchan of Tudvwlch
The Gwarchan of Adebon
The Gwarchan of Cynfelyn
The Gwarchan of Maelderw
Dinogad's Smock
The Book of Taliesin
The Song of the Horses
The Death-song of Aeddon
The Hostile Confederacy
The Death-song of Uther Pendragon
The First Address of Taliesin
The Elegy of the Thousand Sons
The Chronicle Of The Princes Of Wales
Arthur and the Eagle
The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain
The Lives of the Saints
Life of St Collen
The Legend of St. Goeznovius
The Life of St. Cadog
The Life of St. Padarn
The Life of St. Gildas
Life of St. Efflam
The Life of St. Carannog
The Life of St. Illtud
The History of Taliesin
The Mabinogion
The Dream of Rhonabwy
Lludd and Llefelys
Peredur, son of Efrawg
Geraint and Enid
Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain
Culhwch and Olwen
The Dream of Macsen Wledig
The Welsh Triads
Stanzas of the Graves
The Dialogue of Gwyn ap Nudd and Gwyddno Garanhir
The Battle of the Trees
The Spoils of Annwfn
Dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhwyfar
Marwnad Cynddylan
Annales Cambriae
The Chair of the Sovereign
Geraint son of Erbin
Arthur and the Porter
Four Branches of the Mabinogi
The First Branch of the Mabinogi: Pwyll Pendeuc Dyfed
Math Son of Mathonwy
The Second Branch of the Mabinogi: Branwen Daughter of Llyr
Manawydan mab Llŷr
King Urien and Modron daughter of Avallach
Gildas: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain (De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae)
Roman literature & Roman Writers
Claudian, Roman Author
Panegyric on the Consulship of Probinus and Olybrius
Claudian, Against Rufinus
Claudian, The War Against Gildo
Claudian, Against Eutropius
Claudian, Fescennine Verses in Honour of theMarriage of the Emperor Honorius
Claudian, Epithalamium of Honorius and Maria
Claudian, Panegyric on the Consulship of the Emperor Honorius (A.D. 396)
Claudian,Panegyric on the Consulship of Fl. Manlius Theodorus (A.D. 399)
Claudian, On Stilicho's Consulship (A.D. 400)
Claudian, Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius (A.D. 404)
Claudian, The Gothic War
The Rape of Proserpine
Appian
The Histories of Appian, The Civil Wars, Book 1
The Histories of Appian, The Civil Wars, Book II
The Histories of Appian, The Civil Wars, Book III
The Histories of Appian, The Civil Wars, Book IV
The Histories of Appian, The Civil Wars, Book V
Zosimus
New History, Book 1
New History, Book 2
New History, Book 3
New History, Book 4
New History, Book 5
New History, Book 6
Julian: Panegyric in Honour of Constantius
Julian: The Heroic Deeds of the Emperor Constantius, or, On Kingship
Julian: Panegyric in Honour of the Empress Eusebia
Julian: Hymn to King Helios
Julian: Hymn to the Mother of the Gods
Cicero
Ammianus Marcellinus
The Roman History, Book XIV (353-356AD).
The Roman History, Book XV (354-355AD).
The Roman History, Book XVI (356-356AD).
The Roman History, Book XVII (357-358AD).
The Roman History, Book XVIII (359AD)
The Roman History, Book XIX (359AD)
The Roman History, Book XX (360AD)
The Roman History, Book XXI (360-361AD)
The Roman History, Book XXIII(363AD).
The Roman History, Book XXIV(363AD).
The Roman History, Book XXV(363AD).
The Roman History, Book XXVI(363-366AD).
The Roman History, Book XXVIII (368-370AD)
The Roman History, Book XXIX (371-373AD)
The Roman History, Book XXX (374AD)
The Roman History, Book XXXI (375-378AD)
The Roman History, Book XXVII (367-368AD).
Publius Papinius Statius, Silvae
Polybius (c. 200 – c. 118 BC)
Classical References to the Geography of Roman Britain - Classical Geographia
The Notitia Dignitatum - The British Section
The Geography of Ptolemy
The Antonine Itinerary Iter Britanniarum - The British Section
The Ravenna Cosmography - The British Section
Cassius Dio Cocceianus – The Histories of Rome
Gallic Wars - Book V Chapters 1-23
Gallic Wars - Book IV Chapters 20-38
Vallum Hadriani - Roman Souvenirs From the Wall
Roman Coinage Mentioning or Minted in Britain
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - The Twelve Caesars
The Life of Julius Caesar
The Life of Augustus
The Life of Tiberius
The Life of Caligula
The Life of Claudius
The Life of Nero
The Life of Galba
The Life of Otho
The Life of Vitellius
The Life of Vespasian
The Life of Titus
The Life of Domitian
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus - The Agricola
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus - The Histories - British References
Cornelius Tacitus: The Histories
Nennius' Historia Brittonum
Tabula Peutingeria - The British Section
Military Diplomata - Naming British Garrison Units
Military Diplomata - AD105
Military Diplomata - 103AD (RIB 1401.1)
Military Diplomata - AD 98
Military Diplomata - 105 AD (RIB 2401.3)
Military Diplomata - AD 122
Military Diplomata - 124AD (RIB 2401.6)
Military Diplomata c.126AD (b)
Military Diplomata - c AD126 (RIB 2401.7)
Military Diplomata c.AD126a
Military Diplomata - AD 132
Military Diplomata - AD 135 (RIB 2401.9)
Military Diplomata - AD 135 (RIB 2401.8)
Military Diplomata - AD 145/6 (RIB 2401.10)
Military Diplomata - AD 158
The Coligny Tablet
British Tribal Coinage
The Inscribed Coins of the Atrebates
The Inscribed Coins of the Cantiaci
The Inscribed Coins of the Trinovantes
The Inscribed Coins of the Durotriges
The Inscribed Coins of the Dobunni
The Inscribed Coins of the Iceni
The Inscribed Coins of the Catuvellauni
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus - Pharsalia - 'The Grove of the Druids'
Mars/Camulos Plaque from London
De Munitionibus Castrorum - Pseudo-Hyginus
Eutropius (AD 363–387) - Brief History of Rome from its Foundation
Plutarch, Caesar
Livy (59 BC – AD 17)
Strabo, Geography
Historia Augusta
Literary References for Post Roman Britain
The Spoils of Annwfn (Preiddeu Annwfn)
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
Panegyrici Latini
Panegyric VII
Panegyric VIII
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
