And any sites along Hadrian's Wall.
Other Roman sites to visit which have good information about the invasion period include Chester, York, Portchester, Richborough, The Lunt Roman Fort at Baginton, Bath, Dover, Fishbourne (naturally), Caerleon (very good for studying the Roman army). Winchester City Museum has a fine if tiny cabinet display of early coinage and a ‘Roman Room.’
But make use of whatever is nearest! There are lots of sites scattered about the country of varying intrest and detail. (Some only survive as bumps in the ground, be warned!)
Additional reading (as if the Further Reading were not enough! – and to be honest, for teaching this topic at GCSE, there is more than enough in the textbook itself):
Wilson, Roger J. A., A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain (Constable, 4th ed., 2002)
Very handy.
Higgins, Charlotte, Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain (London: Vintage, 2014)
A refreshing recent take on Roman Britain.
Britannia
Britannia is an annual publication of fresh research on Roman Britain published by Cambridge University Press for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Loads of up-to-date research, refreshing re-interpretations, and above all a review of new discoveries, presented region by region and including new pieces of inscriptional material.
Peoples of Roman Britain series (Duckworth)
There were a number of volumes published by Duckworth in a series called Peoples of Roman Britain - these are interesting but uneven in quality, and are based on data available when they were written back in the 1970s (some are more far-fetched, others scholarly and cautious): B. Cunliffe, The Regni; A. Detsicas, The Canticaci; G. Webster, The Cornovii; R. Dunnett, The Trinovantes; M. Todd, The Coritani; K. Branigan, The Catuvellauni.
Reece, R., The Coinage of Roman Britain (Tempus, 2002)
Older, but still readable, accounts of Roman Britain are:
Liversedge, J., Britain in the Roman Emrpire (Routledge, 1968)
Todd, M., Roman Britain, 55BC – AD 400: the Province beyond Ocean (Fontana, 1981)
Wacher, J., Roman Britain (Dent, 1978)
All these are more or less in line with current thinking about the events of the first century AD; the interpretations may change, and more recent views may see the Romans in a less favourable light. Here hasn’t been any ‘revolutionary’ discovery about the early years of the occupation apart from some excavations in Cartimandua’s territory in the north of England, and the extensive finds made in London at the No. 1 Poultry site and on the Bloomberg site, which confirm the early establishment of a trading post (emporium) in Latin.
Podcasts
Episodes of BBC Radio 4 In Our Time that are relevant to this component:
Hadrian’s Wall
Roman Britain
