Bronwen Riley

Writer, editor, deviser of historical and literary journeys in Britain, the Balkans and beyond. @TBookFestival #Antiquity #Romania #writethroughwinter

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How do you get to the troublesome province of Britannia, and who awaits you if you dare? What do you pack? What will you eat? And what on earth will you do, stuck at the very edge of empire, on Rome's northwestern frontier? Paperback out March 2022

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#DogsAtPollingStations @VotingDogs

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@VotingDogs

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Our exhibition has continued its journey through the province of Britannia and just arrived in Londinium where it opens tomorrow @RCILondon

[DOR Romanian Diaspora @romanian8995]

#voicesonthewall with @BronwenRiley Ioana Morpurgo Aura Fitzpatrick, @SorinaNeagu @artfulbloggeruk

all about #dacians in the UK #hadrianwall

live here: https://t.co/PCWzApw3H1

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Here’s Pan to pipe in May with his splendid preening goat from the superb collection of Roman and Dacian artefacts at the Muzeul National al Unirii in Alba Iulia formerly known as Apulum in Roman Dacia #Romans #dacia #May1

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

This #dog wasn't shot in a gravel pit....

A #Roman burial of a dog. The beloved animal was buried with a vessel, its head was bedded on a piece of leather.

A life without #dogs is possible but pointless.

From Cologne, 1st AD.

Photo: Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

[LSA Classics Outreach @lsaclassicsoutr]

Sat 27th April @lsaclassics Ancient Worlds Day @profmcscott @AKSSchool - free entry. 10.30 -4pm craft activities for a small fee, cakes, free @VocabulousUK session. Please bring cash for the activities /refreshments- all reasonably priced. PRIZES for Ancient Themed Dress.

[Peter Stewart @PeterCNStewart]

These tapestry fragments excavated in the 1970s at Attar Caves in Iraq are a great reminder that 'Coptic textiles' in Egypt are just the tip of the iceberg of what once existed all over the Roman Empire and its periphery. [Photos from https://t.co/ANCWiQCIgE]

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@scottie_clark I can’t comment on the rugby but I’m so glad you enjoyed your Journey to Britannia - thanks very much for letting me know

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@dadslibrary @AuraWoodward Thank you so much for coming to see Voices from the Wall @CarlisleCath so glad you enjoyed it!

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And it was wonderful to welcome you to #hadrianswall thank you so much for your amazing support @RCILondon!

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Thank you so much @laurapopescumfa for making the journey to #hadrianswall to open ‘Voices from the Wall’.

[Laura Popescu @laurapopescumfa]

Delighted to open "Voices from the Wall. Dacians on Hadrian's Wall" today at Carlisle Cathedral and talk about the millenary bridge build by our ancestors, so reinforced now. Congrats to @BronwenRiley for this remarkable project, along with @RCILondon and all the team involved!

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@lauraeaday That sounds tough I hope you had a cheering walk and things will continue to look better

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@LadyGodiva____ Have you seen this article? https://t.co/BlG4M1SWtg

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I think we must visit different archives!
@sixteenthCgirl

[Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthCgirl]

Please, please can we stop calling manuscripts ‘dusty’ and ‘hidden’ in archives. Archivists ensure that they’re not one or the other, which is how we historians get to see them in the first place. It’s a lazy and inaccurate cliché that also manages to be insulting.

[Dr Jo Ball @DrJEBall]

A #Roman glass dish, with a chequerboard design in red, blue, & white. It was probably made in Egypt around 2000 years ago, but was likely found in northern Italy #Archaeology #AncientGlass

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

We have secured listing for a Norman Evill house in Stanwix, #carlisle . Barn Close is an outstanding 1902 #ArtsandCrafts house. It was designed by Evill in close collaboration with its original occupiers Edwin and Maud Scott-Nicholson. #listedbuilding #architecture #NorthWest

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Nero paid 1,000,000 sesterces for one such cup - wouldnt it be fun if they found some in his theatre!

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Exciting discovery of Emperor Nero’s lost private theatre- https://t.co/IEF1KZGPzi

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They found rare 10th century glass cups but is there any sign of all that Myrrhine ware Pliny the elder says he stashed there? The Barber cup pictured here @britishmuseum is one of only two Myrrhine or fluorspar vessels known to survive intact from antiquity.