In a field outside Maxey in Cambridgeshire, there is almost nothing to see. The land is flat, the sky enormous, the earthworks long ploughed away. Yet beneath the soil lies a causewayed enclosure built around 3800 BCE, its ditches filled not with rubbish but with ritual: smashed pottery, animal bone, human remains, deposits laid down, covered, and reopened over generations. Etton was not a settlement. It was a place where people bound themselves to the land and kept returning

In 60/61 CE, Boudica, queen of the Iceni, led a revolt that unleashed devastation upon the early Roman settlements in Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium. With no voice of her own in the historical record,our knowledge of the revolt and the woman herself comes from Roman writers and what was left behind in Colchester, London and St. Albans. Textual evidence for Boudica’s revolt comes from Publius Cornelius Tacitus and Lucius Cassius Dio, Roman historians writing about Bo

The 1960 film 'Spartacus' is regarded as a cinematic masterpiece of its day, with an A-list cast including Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. However, its historical accuracy is questionable. Spartacus never had a romance with the daughter of a Roman official, nor did Crassus ever know Spartacus when he was a gladiator. So, who was the real Spartacus, and how did he cement his place as a symbol of resistance and freedom? To the surprise of many, Spartacus' origins were as a

The Legacy of Tenochtitlan can be found in the spaces it has been preserved in, layering its existence in the architecture and landscapes of the city. Lacing memories in spaces that act as stepping stones for understanding Tenochtitlan then and Mexico City now. Spaces are a part of the historiography of the region; they shed light on both the pre-colonial Tenochtitlan and post-colonial Mexico City. Spaces in this history can be thought of as prophecies, not just for realising