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24 Jul 2025

Life at the Edge of Empire: What Roman Soldiers Really Wrote Home

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.