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Boudica: life of the week.

HistoryExtra Academy Roman Britain quiz – week three.

War and peace in Roman Britain.

The people of Roman Britain.

HistoryExtra Academy Roman Britain quiz: week two.

Bronze figure of Sulis, the Celtic goddess associated with medicine, fertility and healing. (Image by Getty Images)

Exile and exploitation: 5 things you probably didn't know about Roman Britain.

HistoryExtra Academy Roman Britain quiz – week one.

A timeline of Roman Britain.

Joining the Roman empire.

Roman slaves: the hidden lives of the empire's invisible labour force.

Cupids on a galley in the Nile, as depicted in a second-century AD mosaic (Photo by Bildarchiv Steffens/Bridgeman Images)

Roman holiday: when emperor Hadrian became a tourist of ancient Egypt.

Slave markets – as shown in this engraving – were a staple of most Roman towns (Image by Alamy)

Ancient Roman slavery: what was life like as an enslaved person?

Votive altar with relief decoration showing procession of servants

The Invisible Romans: how the brutal lives of the enslaved shaped an empire.

Roman pizza, the Black Room, and renovation: 4 incredible things we learned from Pompeii: The New Dig

Romans podcast episodes

Video podcastLife of the week: Spartacus.

The Roman army: everything you wanted to know.

An image depicting St Valentine

Saint ValentineWho was the patron saint of love and lovers?

Life of the week: Spartacus.

A fight between two Gladiators, in mosaic

What were the lives of gladiators like in ancient Rome?.

ThinkpieceThe long death of the Roman republic.

The long death of the Roman Republic.

A photo of Mary Beard, smiling and looking towards the camera, standing between open gates.

Reviving Roman voices: Mary Beard on the remarkable life of one woman.

Illustatration of the siege of Syracuse, showing Archimedes' cranes used to destroy Roman ships

The siege of Syracuse: how Archimedes took on the Romans.

Illustrated portrait of Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes

Why Archimedes was the greatest scientist of the Classical age

Mary Beard, writer and feminist, at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019 on April 3, 2019 in Oxford, England

Video podcastMary Beard on how to live like a Roman emperor.

Video podcastLife of the week: Nero.

Life of the weekNero.

Re-examining women in the Roman empire.

Unearthing Pompeii’s streets.