by Alice Barnes-Brown | Apr 17, 2024
Ancient Rome is known for the remarkable rights it bestowed upon its citizens – but those rights rarely extended to women. The legal status of women in ancient Rome was defined as ‘patria potestas’ – literally, the ‘power of the father’. Women were controlled by the...
by Alex Allen | Nov 3, 2023
While it might not be the oldest settlement in Britain (that title is claimed by Colchester, although the exact dates are somewhat shrouded in the fog of time), York is undoubtedly one of the most ‘historic’. What do we mean by this? Not just that its origins pre-date...
