{"id":12080,"date":"2022-03-31T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=205058"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:32:08","slug":"digging-up-roman-london","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/digging-up-roman-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging up Roman London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Archaeologist Dominic Perring discusses what we know about London\u2019s Roman past with Emily Briffett, examining the city\u2019s key turning points and exploring how life there was affected by fire, plague and warfare. Using archaeological and historical records, he ties London\u2019s story into the wider history of the <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/roman\/roman-empire-history-facts-map-timeline-peak-when-start-when-split-how-long-tetrarchy\/&quot;\">Roman empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-205058-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Roman_london-974472d.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Roman_london-974472d.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Roman_london-974472d.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Dominic Perring is the author of <em>London in the Roman World<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/london-in-the-roman-world\/9780198789000&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Lion-House-Coming-King\/dp\/1847922392?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-lion-house\/christopher-de-bellaigue\/9781847922397&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/digging-up-roman-london\/media.mp3&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Briffett Published: Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 12:00 am Archaeologist Dominic Perring discusses what we know about London\u2019s Roman past with Emily Briffett, examining the city\u2019s key turning points and exploring how life there was affected by fire, plague and warfare. 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