The thing that Rome did for Britain, and pretty much everywhere, was to demonstrate what a thoroughly organized effort by humanity can achieve. For good or ill. Those lessons, once learned, are rarely forgotten and are always worth re-examination for modern applications.

Whilst the Roman town structure was being described, it struck me that most towns in the USA still use this template today. We have a town square, with the courthouse in the middle, surrounded by shops in the parameter. And, during festivals, the streets are closed to traffic and booths akin to old market stalls are installed. Fascinating how Roman influence is still with us today.

This is one of the best documentsries I've ever seen. Factual, professional, no drmamtic music, no awfully acted cscenes, just pure informative bliss. I was hooked from start to finish. Thank you.

Barely just touched upon was Roman medical service. The Romans had a professional army, and with that, the world's first college of physicians. The legions travelled with a medical Corps, just like today. They were very good at treating battle trauma and understood pain relief. Opium was well known in the form of various oral reatments. They also prevented a lot of infection by the use of honey mixed with wine, which they knew to be anti bacterial - even though they didn't know what bacteria was. They knew to boil all dressings and instruments before, during and after surgeries. And they knew not to suture a wound till it healed from the inside out first. Some think that a soldier had a better chance of retirement than a private citizen due to regular medical care in the army. It was only after the discovery of anti-biotics that trauma care got much better then in Roman times. The American Civil War saw absolutely hidesous medical procedures and mass infection, with death soon following. Also, cholera was common after battles but not in Roman times because the dead were cremated. Cholers ourbreaks did occur in Rome and other large cities in those days - up until just thjelast century. But, the Romans had ordinances regarding the siting of their camps and towns away from swamps with insects, and did not allow human toilets anywhere upstream of those sites. As time went on and the sites grew, it's likely those ordinances became moot.

What a rich history England & Londinium ( London) have! They can be proud of it! I do not know very much about today../Greetings from Bucharest ROMANIA 🍀🤗🌹

Yes, the first bridges (brig) over rivers (stows) were pontoons made up of ships. Key to taking over capital cities. Key to the square mile.

Utterly fascinating. I’m really starting to explore my home city ( visit every , every , station, walking the Monopoly board, and may other retirement projects I have planned) but this is a brilliant reference point . I knew a lot anyway but I loved the way the story of the Romans in London and indeed London itself was explained. Thanks you .

Wait! This is posted 3h ago!! :) Profesional approach. Dont ever think about doing less :) good job!

London, York, St Albans, Bath, Exeter, Lincoln, Leicester, Worcester, Gloucester, Chichester, Winchester, Colchester, Manchester, Chester and Lancaster were all Roman cities, as were all cities with names ending in -chester, -cester or -caster, which derive from the Latin word castrum.

In the Londinium theatre they listened to the songs of Adelicus especially her song Rollingucus in the Deepicus.

A great documentary - I 've never seen London so quiet!

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❤ London's history is amazing.

I give you that: Brits are very good in such kind of historical documentaries. I enjoy them each time... For instance dear scholar Bettany Hughes... ❤

It’s quite amazing to understand that the Romans were in the UK for 300 years one wonders what they thought of the good old British weather?

Beautiful documentary thank you so much London has a crazy history!

Thank you for an excellent documentary, I really enjoyed it!

I'm really enjoying everything posted from History Hit thank you for your hard work please know it's appreciated 🤗

Poppy syrup would have been fairly mild, yet medically effective. Not exactly fentanyl. Fascinating video!

Love History Hit. Thank you for all the amazing and very well done content. 🥰

There needs to be a movie or TV series made about Boudica.

Loved the presentation! Learned a lot! More please!!!!!!!!!!

I’m not sure why they’re laughing about people taking poppy syrup for pain and saying that’s weird. It’s not like these people could walk to Walmart and buy ibuprofen. Doctors today are still prescribing opium derivatives for pain.

I'm American and visit London more than any other place in Europe because I find it incredibly beautiful, but also incredibly historical. I've never taken a formal tour (vulgar), but I have friends who have shown me much, and I'm old fashioned enough to look at actual maps. In fact, I managed to get a taxicab driver map because he got one that was less worn out (not cheap!). Every street. Every nook and cranny. I love to explore!

This is a fantastic documentary! So interesting and well-presented.

Excellent! Thank you for posting this video.

Wonderful documentary and channel! Learned more about Roman London in one hour than my three years living in London.

Thank you History Hit!

ha! i walked though that roman wall just now at tower hill to go to M&S. Funny to think im taking medival shortcut though roman wall

From indoor heated floors and plumbing to sudden decline and muddy hill forts. Roman Britain is fascinating to no end, and now I have to see these amazing exhibits. Incredibly produced program. Just really over the top this time HH. So many stories like this one, of a person born in the area of Germany, not even from Rome but Roman, and she ended up here.

thank you. this is a gem.

Thanks for this really top class documentary.

I'm in the US and became familiar with Sophie Jackson from "Time Team," where she appeared a few times. It's great to see someone so passionate about what they do.

Waiting impatiently for the second part after 400 AD.

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

What happened after 410AD? This has never been explored. However, we do know that trade with the Romans ended. And that metals were unobtainable. Furthermore, that London went into a steep decline and was abandoned completely. The city was returned to the animals for about 75 years. It is a great pity that historians have never covered this period. Having written this comment, perhaps they will !

This was a fantastic video and I've added so many more places in London to my Walking list. Next time in Britain I'm going to be Very busy. 🙂

Interesting, thanks I enjoyed this part of Roman history, the people more than the great names.

Well done Video. Thank you

wow! another amazing presentation by the professionals at HH!!

If you can make fun of taking opiates for toothache, you've clearly never had a toothache.

What a fantastic documentary. Well presented and very interesting. Thank you. 🇦🇺👍

Amazing Stories paintings building many miles of stories beautiful art forms

Great documentary.

So bloody interesting. Thank you

Excellent video; factual, objective and very well presented 👏

Great show!

An amazing video Thanks

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage work about Ancient London during Roman Empire Time shared by 🙏(History Hit) channel..

Excellent! Thank You so much!!!

This was really interesting, thank you.

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High Quality Content.

Really enjoyed this. Love HH.

I really enjoyed this overview of Roman London and I now have several new places I want to visit if I ever get to go. I would like to see a video that delivers on what the title promises though. An in depth look at daily life perhaps focusing on 3 or 4 individuals. What did they eat each day? In a multicultural city of the time what kinds of clothing would have been seen? What languages were spoken? How much influence did native British culture still have?

That was tremendous, What a brilliant production.

Excellent videocast! Am I the only one? I want to be able to go back to the early days of Roman London. What attracts me is that it was a life that probably would make ours look cold and inhospitable. Sure; there was the element of early death from a number of probabilities, but one can imagine that people in those times spoke truth to power as a way of life.

I like watching documentaries like these. 👏💯 I enjoy

So many lessons to be take from the destiny of Romans( from 753 bc to 476 ad) ... The western latin remains from Roman Empire... Sometimes History repeats itself... So I do belive it is so important to study history... 😊

👏🏼What a fantastic documentary

Those tablets are fascinating.

Thanks so much for posting.

Great video, would love to see similar things to other cities in Roman Britain like York or Lincoln

Wow, this is a lot more interesting than the companion piece: Roman Los Angeles.

Enjoyed this

Ah, to be introduced to the Palings of Wapping….such an honour!

Pretty grim towards the end rather like today!

Thanks.

Thanks!

Rome was politically organized with a centralized administration. Roman civilization created a vast space in which industrial and commercial activities could be explored profitably and peacefully, with great social and geographic mobility. The predictability of business was guaranteed both by the existence of adequate legislation and by authorities that enforced it. The pacification of conquered regions was achieved both by building cities and by creating opportunities to improve life for local populations who accepted living with the Romans. London was just one of hundreds of Roman cities spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The rise and decline of London was no different from the rise and decline of all other Roman cities.

Super interesting, i didn't know !

I wonder how peoples outside the Roman Empire had relations with the Imperial government, such as the Scandiavian region, Ireland, and beyond the Rhine in the Germanic regions. Where to find books dealing with the periphery of the Roman Empire?

Fascinating information, and very interesting. However, we mustn’t forget that the Romans were not here for a pleasant holiday, or a mere jaunt. It was actually an extremely brutal military occupation, and the poor unfortunates who paid the price were the Ancient Britons. There is a very brief mention of them (‘slaves…’) but otherwise they’re completely airbrushed out of the picture. And the price they paid, to maintain the invaders in their much higher & more comfortable position, is never mentioned…

My god, those finger marks STILL in the makeup canister!! Amazing!

Great doco

This is culture

Despite my lack of good understanding in english, i could enjoy many information. I’d like to remark the structure of Mythras templo seams the jewesh temple as well, and, to me this represent our triple structure: matetial body, inside them the spirit and the divine conscious in the deepst level. Mysthery.

Nicely done! FYI, it's the Boudican revolt, not the "Buddan" revolt.

Meaningless hand, gestures used throughout this video are legion. Very nice video. Very informative. Love, ancient London.

Awesome 👍

Thanks

Would have been cool to see it back then.

Mitra is the deity of the sun and a prominent figure in Hinduism, which still preserves all the ancient ways which are lost now in the rest of the world.

Chariots drove on the LEFT side off the roads!

What calendar are you using by saying, for example, year “8219”?

Enjoyed the exploration, although the subtitles struggled with the English spoken.

Great film, but was I the only one expecting him to give us a recipe for Roman cake. :)

The Romans sure were great architects.

@7:23 i thought dates as we know it today didn't come around until 5th or 6th century AD? i wonder how it was written on that tablet.....very interesting tho

Glad the rate of blade crime has only grown since then! Truly a remarkable salute to the past!

re - 3:30 ish And here I was, thinking that the Romans were interested in mining gold in England (Dolaucothi Gold Mines spring to mind)...

There are footings of a pier, or some such wooden structure, in the Thames, near Embankment from memory which has been carbon dated to around 2,000 BC..So there was likely a settlement in London when the Romans invaded in the 1st Century BC

Terrific race, the Romans. But seriously, apart from the aqueducts, roads, law and order and wine what have the Romans given us?

As a Germanic tribesman - I believe, the Romans didn't come from Italy but from Mars !

It always impresses me how fascinated the British are with even the tiny part the Romans played in their land's history. Meanwhile there are countries in south europe whose lands have been part of the Roman Empire for 1000 years and they don't care much about it

The 'deed of sale' tablets at 7:12 don't have anything I can visibly recognise as writing. Did they have to shine a special light on it or just look really closely or something?

Actually it's quite possible that London is actually older than the Roman occupation as some evidence of habitation pre dates the romans. There is even evidence although still debated by scientist of a hillfort in the region before the romans. The Romans were very good at turning local hubs into centers of roman control this was also true in Gaul many of france's biggest cities today were the power centers of gaulish tribes such as paris and lyon. Its very likely this is what they did with london too they took what was already probably a important spot along celtic trade routes which we know previously existed and turned it into the city of london.

These tablets were early iPads.

There can be a many perspectives, or rather shall I say, varying analytical vantages to gauge the influence and empirecle dispositions of the two Roman Empires over the major European nations through the Empires' longevity as a formidable political and socio-cultural power far west and around the ancient Saraswati river basin. The origin story of the earliest of the vessel cities of Roman Empire may propose militarily designed imperialism, yet as per my humble research, as a politico-socio-economic phenomenon the first Roman Empire was an almost institutionalized formalization of commerce across the trading ports and financially active cities in Europe, Eurasia and western Asia, a kind of a socio-politically curated global conglomerate of a visible military significance, with its influence reaching to the coast of Africa, Americas and resonating all the way to the middle east and central Asia. Kinda cataloguing of the Afro-American and central Asian trade routes reaching the European frontiers, the assimilation of the trade instincts and commercial comraderies emerged in and as derivatives of the zenith of Silk Route, with a strong militarist aristocratism to set formats and waypoints, a profound conceptual application of the nobility architecture synthesized in the European management of the large unified cities, the onset of urbanism as we can call it. In my humblest of understanding, Britain was never really a Roman vessel, a true imperial center, like the sorts that emerged during the rise of Empire's imperial prominence; and thus in the interfaces of Roman signature present in the British history, it was more of a commercial refraction to administer trading fluidity, an ease of commercial exchange, a portal calibration to ascertain a trade linearism, attuning more out of or inducing a polarity attaining resonance from the Greeko-Nordic influence on the British maritime culture. Before its acute militarization as noted in converging historical accords, Roman Empire was predominantly a meticulously synergized influence epicenter, like today's leading techno-economic powers, broadcasting a unified signature methodology at state administration, architectural formulas, production techniques, technology adaptations, social propositions and trade aestheticism, promoting signature socio-cultural nuisances and proliferation theories. Without indulging a debate on the extent and formidability of the Roman Empires, perhaps a lot many of the architectural and socio-cultural interfaces of the ancient Roman Empires spread across the current cities of the modern world, in true sense emerged as the induced propositions to navigate the luminous and highly lucrative civilization theory that the Roman Empires invented through their various charters, built to display compatibility and a vocal politico-aesthetic alliance. A humble perspective. Salute'

@1:30 Londinium was established where it was established because it was the closest ford to the sea.