Andrew Simpson

It's not the zippiest of titles but it does the biz, because this is the story of one farmer in the Vale of Yorkshire who has uncovered ...

This is another bit of history I enjoyed today. It comes from that excellent series In Our Time and is free to listen to long after the fir...

Pan Edition 1961 I have begun re-reading The Great Invasion by Leonard Cottrell. It was first published in 1958 and describes the Rom...

  Today I am renewing my friendship with Catullus. 2016 To be more accurate I am reading the biography of my favourite Roman poet. I first c...

I have returned to the poems of Catullus. The 1968 edition I first came across him in 1975, during a very messy moment at the end of a relat...

N ow, the news that a bit of Roman road has been found in Manchester is the sort of news I like. Two very knocked about Romans, 1975 I am an...

 This is my summer reading.  The press release tells me that, “It’s your LUCKY day! You’ve stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your...

I missed the event last weekend when Leicester did all things Roman. Enlist today .... 2025 Spread across a number of historic sites over tw...

Now I am a great fan of the Roman historian Mary Beard, and so I was pleased to see she is back on Radio 4 with a new series on  Being Roman...

It started out as a folded wall chart progressed into a block mounted display and survived one house move, rested on several walls in severa...

This is one I am listening to. It is from the Radio 4 series In Our Time Julian "Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler o...

I am a great fan of Mary Beard who has that ability to recreate the world of the Romans in all its complicated, messy and fascinating way. W...

Now I grew up with horrible Vikings wearing wings on their helmets, Celtic war chariots driving into massed ranks of Roman soldiers, and mor...

I wasn't going to listen to Virgil's Georgics on Radio 4.   It is the latest programme from In Our Time , but I am glad I did, becau...

Now, you either like the Romans or you pass over them with a shudder. For some they are the quintessential example of ruthless Imperial aggr...

I don’t now know how many editions of the History of The English Speaking Peoples I bought back in 1969, but this copy is the only one to su...

1,900 years old this year.* The Wall as interpreted in 1955 Hadrian's wall just east of Cawfields quarry 2005 Location; norther England ...

Now I grant you "Gladiators and lions come to Leicester" might be a tad to far, but nevertheless there is speculation that the ci...

Now , I am looking forward to listening to the story of Edward Gibbon from the series In Our Time on Radio 4. A bit of Rome a bit knocked a...