“What have the Romans ever done for us?” Monty Python memorably asked, and answered, in the 1979 film The Life of Brian. Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, public ...

The Emperor Claudius, whose mother once described him as ‘not so much unfinished by nature, as barely begun’, ordered the invasion of Britain in AD43. A legion crossed the Cotswolds unopposed and came ...