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22 Feb 2026
Hadrian's Wall was not built to keep out the Scots. It was not built by slaves. It was not even the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire. Almost everything the popular version teaches you is wrong.
04 Jan 2026
The word 'barbarian' is Roman propaganda. The peoples beyond Hadrian's Wall were not primitive savages. They had complex societies, sophisticated metalwork, and political organisations Rome found genuinely threatening.
11 Dec 2025
Sulpicia Lepidina was a Roman officer's wife at Vindolanda around 100 AD. Her birthday party invitation is the oldest surviving handwritten document by a woman in Britain. Her life was extraordinary.
24 Jul 2025
The Vindolanda tablets are the oldest handwritten documents found in Britain. They are letters from Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall, complaining about the weather and asking for socks.