Britannia: A History of Roman Britain

First published in 1967, this archaeological history of Roman Britain follows the island from Julius Caesar's expeditions and the Claudian invasion through conquest, the building of towns, roads, and the northern frontiers, and the later centuries of garrison life. Frere treats military occupation, civilian government, villas and countryside, trade, religion, and the evidence of inscriptions and excavation. He closes with the withdrawal of imperial power in the fifth century. The book is a scholarly survey for readers who want the sequence of occupation as archaeologists reconstructed it, not a biography of a single governor or a narrative of one revolt.

Bound in dark blue buckram blocked with a gilt design. Dark blue slipcase with series title in a pale blue panel on the front.