Essential History | The people, places and events that have shaped our history and culture
The people, places and events that have shaped our history and culture
Beneath York Minster lies the basilica of the Roman fort of York (Eboracum), built around AD 100 (and rediscovered in the 1960s). The basilica was the heart of Roman administration and ceremony in York and was located at the centre of a fortress built in AD 71 during the reign of Emperor Vespasian. At this [...]
Such would have read the headlines of the particulars for one of England's finest Romano-British villas. Four miles from Cirencester, a villa replete with stunning mosaics, two bath houses and a nymphaeum bring AD 400s Romano-Britain to life. Thought to be a villa of high-standing administrators, it would have housed his close and wider family [...]
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Rochester High Street in Kent, is a showcase of stunning architectural landmarks, blending the charm of Tudor and Stuart buildings with Georgian town houses along cobblestone streets. Beneath Rochester Castle, the town's cathedral (second-oldest in England after Canterbury) was founded in 604 by Bishop Justus during the Gregorian Mission from 597. Eastgate House, an Elizabethan [...]
Built in the 1080s after the Norman Invasion, Rochester Castle possesses one of the tallest medieval great towers in Europe. It was built to protect the strategic crossing of the River Medway - also used in Roman and Saxon times. William the Conqueror established the site as an earth and timber castle. Shortly after, Gundulf, [...]