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Tag Archives: roman
Numbered days
Been thinking about numbers lately as several friends have reached the half century mark, five sixths of the three score years that denotes old age, or once did. Ten years then left to the expectation of a lifespan. Threescore and … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, birthday, children, covid, eugenics, history, longevity, old-people, pandemic, roman
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Great-granddad Samuel and the Rudston Venus mosaic
“It was a woman with a mirror,” said mum when we met up. She confirmed what I already had guessed, that the mosaic that I’d been looking up for research reasons was the same as the mosaic her mum’s dad … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, carthage, europe, history, hull-museum, italy, mosaic, north-africa, roman, roman-art, roman-britain, rudston, yorkshire
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Unrelatable Romans
Writing and talking about Romans again and spending a lot of time thinking about Roman slavery. Mostly for my ‘Friends, Romans and Enslavers’ talk for the Vindolanda Trust that you can watch online on their YouTube channel. Few people who … Continue reading
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Tagged hadrians-wall, history, roman, roman-army, slavery, vindolanda
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Nerd alert – Roman military households is published!
This feels like a brag but my book is now in print, and there is little point in writing it a book if nobody is going to read it so I thought I’d post about it. This is an academic … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, books, latin-inscriptions, roman, roman-archaeology, roman-forts, roman-military, roman-studies, vindolanda
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The auriga in my head at conferences.
Recuperating today after going to a great conference yesterday in Chester, which is objectively one of the UK’s prettiest cities. I grew up not far away in Stafford and my heart always relaxes a little at the sight of black … Continue reading
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Tagged auriga, chariot, chester, conference, lifestyle, memento-mori, neurodiversity, public-speaking, roman, tertullian, travel, uk
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Dr. Claire Millington 