🏛 Ancient Rome | Roman Britain | Historical Fiction
🥉 HNS First Chapters Competition 2026
📖 Author of LEGIONARY’S DAWN
⚔️ Writing Book II: BLOOD & LAUREL
Roman tradition and early legal codes forbade parents from publicly mourning babies. But a new discovery adds to a growing body of evidence challenging the assumption that these were followed:
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Book II is well and truly underway. 12,000 words of the first draft down.
Work about to get in the way of my writing though 😮💨. I WILL reach my target! ⭐️
Rome wasn’t built in a day!
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Ancient Rome fascinates people because it contains both extremes at once:
1️⃣ astonishing civilisation and 2️⃣ astonishing brutality.
That contradiction sits at the heart of everything I write.
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@UpdatingOnRome Moments like this are why late Republican Rome remains endlessly compelling. Politics, ambition, betrayal, legacy. All concentrated into a single room.
Rome survived Hannibal, civil wars, and centuries of invasion. But by Honorius’ reign, the Empire seemed exhausted from within as much as threatened from without.
The sack of Rome in 410 must have felt unimaginable to contemporaries. For centuries, Rome had seemed eternal.
If you could witness one moment from the fall of the Western Roman Empire firsthand, what would it be?
Rome celebrates victory in marble halls.
The soldiers who win it stand in the mug digging ditches in Britannia.
LEGIONARY’S DAWN 🥉
HNS First Chapters Competition 2026
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