The Romans in Bath 2010
At a glance

All events are at BRLSI, 16 Queen Sq, Bath BA1 2HN.
Unless otherwise stated, lectures start at 7.30pm and cost £4, or £2 for BRLSI members/students
(events marked B - advance tickets available from the Bath Festivals box office at £6/£4)
Exhibitions are open Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm. Entry to exhibitions is free. Click on poster images to see larger versions.
- click on symbol to see a poster for this event

March
		Mon 1st	Roman Technology - Its Past and Future	Prof Julian Vincent, BRLSI Chair of Trustees
	B	Sat 6th 6pm	The Roman Empire (Bath Lit. Festival)	Frank McLynn, Philip Parker & Charlotte Higgins, Authors
		Mon 22nd	Britain’s First Information Revolution	Prof Ian Haynes, University of Newcastle
April
		Mon 12th	They Came to Aquae Sulis	Stephen Bird, Head of Heritage Services, B&NES
	B	Fri 16th	The Demonisation of Paganism	Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Kings College London
		Sat 24th April to Sat 19th, June Exhibition: Caveman to Celt, The Unwritten History of the British Isles Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, entry free.
May
		Fri 7th	Mutating Gods of the Roman Pantheon	Roger Vlitos, writer & photographer
		Mon 10th	Bathing in the Roman Empire	Stephen Clews, Bath Roman Baths & Pump Room
		Wed 26th	Roman Ruins, English Poets	BRLSI Members & others
June
		Wed 2nd	Roma non basta una vita (Rome, a lifetime is not enough)	Duncan McGibbon, author of The Consolations
		Fri 4th	Fosse Way and Myth: Evidence and interpretation	Simon Tyler, BRLSI Member
	B	Mon 7th	What the Ancients have done for us (and might still do)	Dr Peter V Jones, Classicist
		Sun 13th	A day visit to the Roman town of Caerwent and the legionary fortress of Caerleon - ring 01225 312084 for details
		Sat 19th - Caveman to Celt exhibition ends
July - August - September
	B	Mon 12th July	Health and Medicine in Antiquity: Too busy to be ill?	Prof Helen King, Dept of Classics, University of Reading
		Mon 10th August to Sat 9th October. Exhibition: Life in Roman Britain Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, entry free.
	B	Fri 10th Sept	What laws were there in Roman Bath?	Prof Derek Roebuck, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
October
		Fri 1st	The Battle of Mount Badon - Arthur’s last & greatest victory	Michael Davis, BRLSI member
		Sat 9th - Life in Roman Britain exhibition ends
		Wed 6th	Living with Latin - The feel of Roman culture	Dr Nicholas Ostler, Philologer
		Mon 11th	The Perception of Self - Freedom and Slavery in Roman Bath	Stephen Clews, B&NES Heritage Services
		Wed 13th	Vergil: the Aeneid	Tony Pitman, Classics Teacher
		Fri 15th	Colony so Fertile - John Wood and the recovery of the Roman Empire (the 2010 BRLSI John Wood Architecture Lecture)	Prof Richard Hingley, University of Durham
November
	B	Wed 3rd	Calleva Atrebatum - The beginning of town life in Britain	Prof Michael Fulford, University of Reading
		Mon 8th	Roman Ripples - Drapery in fashion through the ages	Rosemary Harden, Curator Bath Museum of Fashion
		Fri 12th	The Sack of Rome - Was it the end for Roman Britain?	Sam Moorhead, British Museum
		Tue 16th	Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ (Final lecture)	Dr Brian Young, University of Oxford