We can't believe it's - checks datestamp - 11 days ago already. Thanks to everyone who participated in #RACTRAC!
Thank you to everyone who came and contributed to our discussions!
Great speakers today at our colloquium 'Letters and Landscapes' - thank you to outgoing Roman Society president Roy Gibson for talking us through when letters go to and from Rome, or round the Mediterranean region, to Kathryn Tempest on what it means that there's almost no landscapes in Cicero...
Ruth Morello on Cicero's travels and anxieties, and James Corke-Webster for connecting letters of refugees in Calais to letters of early Christian martyrs (in a much more nuanced and complex way than Bluesky allows)
We'll try to take better pics of our speakers in future!-too engrossed in the talks
Call for contributions! Reconnecting Roman Britain 2026, at Colchester: Friday 13th & Saturday 14th November. See picture for details or email [email protected] for more information. (Deadline: Sunday, 6
September 2026)
Image of Colchester's Roman wall by 'Zorba the Geek' CC BY-SA 2.0
Call for contributions! Reconnecting Roman Britain 2026, at Colchester: Friday 13th & Saturday 14th November. See picture for details or email [email protected] for more information. (Deadline: Sunday, 6
September 2026)
Image of Colchester's Roman wall by 'Zorba the Geek' CC BY-SA 2.0
Part of a Roman dedicatory inscription from the Milecastle at Hotbank, Hadrian’s Wall.
It translates:
Built by Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus...the Second Legion Augusta under Aulus Platorius Nepos, propraetorian legate'.
Nepos was governor of Britannia AD 122 to 125.
#RomanFortThursday
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Details of Saturday's colloquium here: www.romansociety.org.uk/Events
Reminder! Our Colloquium 'Letters and Landscapes' and AGM is this Saturday 6 June. Senate House, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HU
AGM (members only) 2pm.
Colloquium (everyone! no booking needed) from 2.30pm.
Full programme at www.romansociety.org/Events
Image: stevecadman - CC BY-SA 2.0.
If you're coming to our annual colloquium on 'Letters and Landscapes' on Saturday (6 June) do tag us in your social media and we'll try to share it!
