Contents
APRIL 2012
FEATURES
THE ROMANS
22 The Roman invasion: Whose side were the Britons on? Gillian Hovell considers the key questions of the Roman conquest
30 Canterbury’s other martyr Sarah Foot reveals how an 11th-century archbishop came to grief
32 Why the Seventies still matter It was the 1970s that forged today’s Britain, argues Dominic Sandbrook
34 Witness to the war Sir Max Hastings on braving the cold and Argentine bullets in the Falklands 30 years ago
40 “I find myself a traitor” Dan Jones contends that Shakespeare’s Richard II sticks closely to the historical record
THE ROMANS
44 Rome after dark Mary Beard discovers the thrills and perils that would await a Roman in the imperial city at night
THE ROMANS
52 The mystery of the Roman ‘princess’ Julian Richards investigates an unusual archaeological find
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56 Britain’s wartime intelligence factory Christopher Grey explains how Bletchley Park operated on a gigantic scale in the Second World War
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