502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Isles. They sent their most competent fighters and leaders to suppress the indigenous Britons in the south. As the Druids of Wales were defeated, and the resistant Caledonians were massacred, the process of Romanisation in Britain began. London became the urbanised imperial capital, and the Roman love of hot springs saw the development of Bath. And, forty years after their arrival, they finally reached the Highlands, conquering lands as north as Orkney. Listen as Tom and Dominic discuss how the Romans circumnavigated the British Isles, colonised its lands and returned to Rome as heroes. _______ LIVE SHOWS *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history’s greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Anouska Lewis Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.4	obscurity in which it has shrouded our name.
1:10.0	But now the most northerly reaches of Britain lie open to our foe, and what men know nothing
1:16.6	about is invariably a cause of fascination.
1:21.1	There are no peoples who dwell beyond us, nothing but waves and rocks, and the Romans who are more terrible still,
1:28.0	for there is no escaping their exactions by submitting to them and bowing the neck.
1:35.4	Men who have stripped the entire world bear.
1:38.7	They have exhausted the dry land by plundering all it has to offer, so now they ransack the sea. A wealthy
1:47.1	enemy excites their capacity, a poor one their hunger for power. The East and West alike have failed to satisfy their appetites.
1:58.0	Alone among men, they lost equally after the rich and the poor.
2:04.0	What they speciously call Empire is merely robbery, slaughter and looting.
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