Time Present and Time Past

I wrote about the Brigantes in my blog-post of 7th November last year, but said little specifically about their Queen, Cartimandua. She is ...

That the Somerset spa town of Bath has its origins in Roman times has long been known, but the circumstances of its ancient foundation are s...

My thanks to Alison Morton for inviting me to be part of the "My Writing Process" blog tour. Like me, Alison has published two no...

More than two centuries ago, the head of a massive statue came to light at Bosham, on the shores of Chichester Harbour. Its features were ba...

Close to Thetford, in Norfolk, is a heathland surrounded by pine woods. From a distance, the heath seems un-remarkable: it is covered, depen...

By the middle of the 1st Century AD, Rome was at the centre of an empire that encompassed the whole of the Mediterranean world, extending no...

In September last year ( http://mark-patton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-first-age-of-sail.html ), I considered the evidence for long-distance...