100 Historical Things, Number 51

I really meant to stop just posting links, but these are fascinating:

Trouve of Roman erotica found in Britain

and

Remains of Roman giant found

This week marks the return of some Good Stuff to television, so I thought I'd tell you all about it...

Sunday (today) brings us a clash in the 8pm slot...

George Gently (BBC1) is a 1960s police drama starring the wonderful Martin Shaw (AKA Doyle in the Professionals; see icon - he's on the left) as an old Met detective living up in Northumberland ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, there was a Roman called Quintus. ( Story )

I watched Hannibal on Sunday night - I forgot about this all of yesterday. Did other people see it? Anyway, I thought it was not good. And I don't think you can spoiler the story of hannibal, so I'm not cutting this ( Read more... )

I just remembered one thing that didn't ring true in Rome (which isn't to say it wasn't a wonderful series of much wonder ( Read more... )