Skip to content

OU on the BBC: Romans in Britain - Books

Do you want to know more about the Empire? Follow our tips for reading the Romans.

01 Aug
2006
Production team tablet

THE ROMAN EMPIRE: GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS

Janet Huskinson (Ed.), Experiencing Rome, Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire (OU and Routledge, 1999)

Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger, The Classical Cookbook (The British Museum Press, London, 1996)

P. Jones and K. Sidwell (Eds.), The World of Rome (Cambridge, 1997)

Claire Ryley, Roman Gardens and their Plants (Sussex Archaeological Society, 1998)

Chris Scarre, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Penguin Books, 1995)

C. Wells, The Roman Empire (Fontana History of the Ancient World, 1992)

ROMAN BRITAIN

Lindsay Allason-Jones, Women in Roman Britain (British Museum, London, 1989)

Guy de la Bédoyère, The Finds of Roman Britain (Batsford, London, 1988)

Guy de la Bédoyère, The Buildings of Roman Britain (Batsford, London, 1991)

Guy de la Bédoyère, Roman Villas and the Countryside (Batsford / English Heritage, 1993)

Guy de la Bédoyère, The Golden Age: Roman Britain in the 4th Century (Tempus, 1999)

Ken Dark and Petra Dark, The Landscape of Roman Britain (Sutton Publishing, 1997)

S S Frere, Britannia: A History of Roman Britain (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1978)

Stanley Ireland, Roman Britain: A Sourcebook (Croom Helm, London, 1986)

Simon James, Exploring the World of the Celts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1993)

Simon James and Valery Rigby, Britain and the Celtic Iron Age (British Museum, London, 1997)

Barri Jones and David Mattingly, An Atlas of Roman Britain (Blackwell, Oxford, 1990)

Joan Liversidge, Britain in the Roman Empire (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968)

Martin Millett, The Romanisation of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Martin Millett, Roman Britain (Batsford and English Heritage, 1995)

T.W. Potter, Roman Britain (British Museum, London, 1983)

T.W. Potter and Catherine Johns, Roman Britain (British Museum, London, 1992)

Richard Reece, My Roman Britain (Cotswold Studies, Vol. 3 1988)

Peter Salway, Roman Britain (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)

Peter Salway, The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain (Oxford 1993)

Paul R. Sealey, The Boudican Revolt against Rome (Shire Archaeology, 1997)

Tacitus, Agricola (Harvard University Press, 1970)

Paul Tyers, Roman Pottery in Britain (Batsford, 1996)

Graham Webster, Boudica: The British Revolt against Rome AD 60 (Batsford, London, 1978)

 

 
Production team stone inscription

GUIDEBOOKS TO ROMAN BRITAIN

GENERAL

David E. Johnston (Ed.), Discovering Roman Britain (Shire Publications, 1983)

Roger Wilson, A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain (Constable, London, 1989)

CHEDWORTH

Roger Goodburn, Chedworth Roman Villa (The National Trust, 1996)

COLCHESTER

Philip Crummy, City of Victory: The Story of Colchester - Britain's First Roman Town (Colchester Archaeological Trust, 1997)

HADRIAN'S WALL

Guy de la Bédoyère, Hadrian's Wall: A History and Guide (Tempus, 1998)

Anthony R. Birley, Hadrian: The Restless Emperor (Routledge, London, 1997)

Robin Birley, Vindolanda's Roman Records (Roman Army Museum Publications, 1990)

Robin Birley, The Building of Hadrian's Wall (Roman Army Museum Publications, 1991)

Alan K. Bowman, Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its People (British Museum Press, London, 1994)

Peter Connolly, The Roman Fort (Oxford University Press, 1991)

James Crow, The English Heritage Book of Housesteads (Batsford / English Heritage 1995)

Stephen Johnson, Hadrian's Wall (Batsford / English Heritage, 1989)

ROMAN LONDON

Jenny Hall and Ralph Merrifield, Roman London ( HMSO, 1986)

Peter Marsden, Roman London (Thames and Hudson, London, 1980)

Ralph Merrifield, London, City of the Romans (Batsford, London, 1983)

Gustav Milne, The Port of Roman London (Batsford, 1985)

Gustav Milne, The English Heritage book of Roman London (Batsford / English Heritage, 1995)

MAIDEN CASTLE

Niall M. Sharples, The English Heritage book of Maiden Castle (Batsford / English Heritage, 1991)

Romans in Britain in more depth:

Rate and share this page:

You haven't rated. Average rating 4.5 out of 5, based on 4 ratings

Share this page:

.

More like this

Comments

Be the first to post a comment.

Login or Register to post comments

Article Information

Publication details

Copyright information
• Body text - Copyrighted: The Open University
• Image 'tablet' - Copyrighted: Production team
• Image 'stone inscription' - Copyrighted: Production team

Article Feeds

If you enjoyed this, why not follow a feed to find out when we have new things like it? Choose an RSS feed from the list below. (Don't know what to do with RSS feeds?)
Remember, you can also make your own, personal feed by combining tags from around OpenLearn.

About OpenLearn

Hide

Explore

Try

Study

OU Courses

Open University

OpenLearn Now

Hide
Dickens: Want some more? Copyrighted Image iStock

Delve into the world of Dickens on his bicentenary.

Tag Clouds

Hide

My Cloud

Discover the latest about your passions - Sign In or Register and start a personal tag cloud.

What are Tag Clouds?
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/sites/all/themes/ole/flash/tagcloud.swf

Creative Commons License Except for third party materials and otherwise stated, content on this site is made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence

/openlearn/sites/all/themes/ole/