Books with title Roman Britain,

For nearly four centuries, Britain served as the western border of the Roman Empire. Invaded in 43 AD, it was initially a wild place prone to Celtic uprisings such as those led by Boudicca. However, as the decades passed, the unrest settled and the Romans set to work building temples, roads, baths and villas. Life in Britain became similar to life an any of the corners of the Empire with the order and culture of the Empire mixing freely with the native cultures. Discover what it was like to be a citizen of the greatest Empire in the world while at the same time living near the edge of the map.

A mixture of case studies and general surveys presenting the latest views on: Buildings (T F C Blagg), Production and Consumption - meat (Anthony King), Production and Consumption - plants (Martin Jones), Money (Richard Reece), Long Distance Trade (Michael Fulford), Pottery (Jeremy Evans), Urbanisation (R F J Jones), London (S Roskams), Lincoln (M J Jones), The Countryside (Richard Hingley), Field Survey: Maddle Farm (V Gaffney and M Tingle), Soldiers and Settlement in Wales and Scotland (W S Hanson and L Macinnes), Soldiers and Settlement in northern England (N J Higham), Binchester (I M Ferris and R F J Jones), Hayling Island (Anthony King and Grahame Soffe), Cultural Change

Taking account of new discoveries, new research, and with added illustrative material, Guy de la Bédoyère presents the history of the development of Romano-British towns in the aftermath of the invasion of AD43 until their decline in the 3rd and 4th centuries. He discusses the conditions under which towns developed, the public buildings that were constructed, and improvements in urban housing which together allowed a thriving urban economy to flourish.