The Origins of London
The Ancients
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Roman London - A Great Case Study
London is a peripheral city. It's out there in in a frontier area that rome conquers quite late in its period of expansion through europe. So we don't have a lot of good historical material. We've got 14, or so, i think, clear references to london in ancient sources. And archaeologys is telling us a completely new story that historians weren't that bothered to write at the time. 're interesting inde into the chronology. The time lines wead on go to the start. I mean, what did this area look like before the roman conquest?"
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