Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...

Examples include Colchester, St Albans and Silchester in southern England. By the time of the Roman invasion, they could be found as far north as Stanwick in Yorkshire. No oppida are known in ...

Britain paid more in customs and duties than could be raised through taxation if the country was conquered. However, it was a fragile tolerance, and the Emperor Augustus had prepared invasions in ...

Hitler turned his attention to the invasion of Britain, the last country in Western Europe to stand against him. Photo: Hitler giving his 'Last Appeal to Reason' speech to the German Reichstag at ...

Covered in this episode is the patenting of the first chair and Caesar's Home Movies of the Invasion of Britain.