The Breeze and Dobson award seeks to acknowledge the excellent research that is conducted in reference to Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier by non-university researchers and early-career academics, and to encourage its publication and dissemination to a wider audience. The Hadrian’s Wall Partnership Board is pleased to announce that Dr Katy O’Donnell has been…
By Prof David Breeze The fifth webinar for the Roman Army School. See more at https://www.ad43.org.uk/webinars.php
by Richard Bridgland MA The fourth webinar for the Roman Army School. See more at https://www.ad43.org.uk/webinars.php
By Marko Jelusic, of the University of Freiburg The third webinar for the Roman Army School. See more at https://www.ad43.org.uk/webinars.php
By Prof David Breeze The second webinar for the Roman Army School. See more at https://www.ad43.org.uk/webinars.php
David Breeze goes on a virtual walk with Mark Richards along Hadrian’s Wall from Gilsland (MC 48) to Craggle Hill (about MC 54). The Countrystride Podcast celebrates the landscapes, culture, heritage and people of Cumbria and the Lake District through a unique blend of immersive field recordings, inspiring commentary and interviews, all shaped into a single walk presented…
By Prof David Breeze Recording of the first RAS webinar broadcast on 1st December 2020.
By Jorit Wintjes Introduction – Rome in Germany When Roman forces pushed eastwards into Germany from bases along the river Rhine from 12 BC onwards, they did so in order to establish Roman rule over the lands between the two great central European rivers running roughly from south to north – the Rhine and the…
by Richard Bridgland The study of the nine late-Roman forts in south-east Britain, listed as on the Saxon Shore in the Notitia Dignitatum, has never attracted the academic following afforded to the northern frontiers. Here, after producing a book, the researcher moved on to other areas. Given the limited range of evidence, no consensus on…
by David J. Breeze Early in my career I was given some wise advice: never forget, David, that in writing a review, it is the reviewer who is on trial rather than the reviewed. Wise advice and too often forgotten. This wise advice is multi-layered. One element is certainly courtesy. A book has been written…