Coffee and Circuses

Three guests for the price of one this week: Charlie Edwards, Alex Davis and Vicky Saward-Read, all of whom have just finished their UG degrees in Classics and Archaeology here at ...

Richard joins David to reflect on how he originally had no plans to go into archaeology or museums, and just wanted to be a drummer in a band, but through a knack of meeting the ri...

Caroline joins David in the London Mithraeum to discuss her new book The Time Travel Diaries, in which a boy from modern London is transported back to Roman Londinium via a portal ...

Rounding off the TRAC 2019 episodes, David is joined by Phil, who served as Head of the TRAC Local Organising Committee, to reflect on the conference and discuss Phil's PhD on Rich...

For the third episode recorded at TRAC, David was joined by Miller Power, who was presenting a poster at the conference on non-binary and intersex visibility in Roman archaeology. ...

Frances joins David in the second TRAC episode to discuss her role as curator of Chesters Roman Fort, and her PhD/new book on the Clayton Collection housed at Chesters. She talks a...

In the first of several episodes recorded during TRAC, Deb joins David to discuss her VR reconstruction of the Carrawburgh Mithraeum, sensory experience in VR, how it'll become inc...

Ada joins David to discuss her new book, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt. She chats about attitudes towards menstruation, marriage, and unwanted children, and the ...

Phil joins David to talk about his PhD on prehistoric monuments in Roman Britain - how did people interact with these features in this  period? How did their presence effect the la...

Laura joins David to talk about her current project on sensory experience in Pompeii, Herculaneum and Ostia, her PhD on sleeping and privacy in the Roman world, how she's finding h...

Giacomo joins David to talk about his recent article on the re-discovery of Roman baths in Britain, and how one image - mistakenly thought to be ancient Roman when it was centuries...

Matthijs joins David to talk about his work on Roman law, and how it gives us a window into life in the ancient world. Roman laws were issued to deal with problems that arose in pe...