Roman England

by John Frederick Burke

Describes the archeological remains of the Romans in the various regions of England and depicts the way of life of the Romans in England

Genres: History

152 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1983

About the author

John Frederick Burke (8 March 1922 – 20 September 2011) was an English writer of novels and short stories.
He had written under the pen names J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, Joanna Jones and co-written with his wife Jean Burke under the pen name Harriet Esmond.

Reviews

[Sherrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another publication from 40 years ago, a similar format to Prehistoric England, not quite such a good layout but gave me a good insight to Roman England.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent resource for reviewing Roman presence in England. Good maps and excellent photographs of remaining structures, mosaics, and artifacts.
Dated 1983, so may lack subsequent scholarship and discoveries.

[Michael Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are two kinds of pictorial, coffee-table-type history books: Those for which the pictures are the main reason for picking up the book at all, and those for which the illustrations are, um, only illustrative. This is generally one of the former, and as such it’s not bad. The author produced a number of popular histories of Britain (and a couple of novels) as opposed to being an academic, which means the narrative of the Roman conquest, occupation, and eventual abandonment of Britain tends to be superficial at best and rather cutesy and flip at worst. But you can skim over the text and concentrate on the many images, which are very informative and well-reproduced, including aerial shots of Roman cities and forts and villas now buried under fields (and visible only by crop-marks), archaeological sites, surviving walls and other structures like Richborough and Portchester Castle and York’s sewers and (of course) Hadrian’s Wall, excavated mosaics and grave goods, and even occasional soldiers’ possessions.