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@ChesterArchSoc members - check your inboxes for an advance notice of our next meeting on 18 November (Dr Roger White talking about Wroxeter) and other treats in store!
Non-members welcome to our talks (£5).
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Within the Welsh village of #Caerwent are the Roman remains of Venta Silurum built in the late 1st century AD sitting within the tribal lands of the Silures. Apart from its well preserved town walls a stroll round the village reveals the excavated remains of the shops and houses
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Nearly 1,000 people queue to see Chester’s hidden wartime air raid shelter – The Chester blog
thechesterblog.com/2026/11/0…
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Was Venice's iconic Winged Lion statue made in China?
Isotope analysis indicates this symbol of Venetian statehood was made from a modified Tang Dynasty tomb guardian, a reminder of the impressive connectedness of the medieval world.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10…
ALT Illustration of a lion with wings in profile, coloured with six different colours on different sections. The colours represent phases of casting, and phases 1 and 2 (the majority of the main body) are ascribed to the original Tang sculpture.
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@chrisgpackham's petition for a government emergency briefing on the climate and nature crisis will be debated in Parliament on 16 November at 4:30pm 🏛️
Please ask your MP to attend and speak:
nebriefing.org/petition-deba… - and tag them in the comments.
#NationalEmergencyBriefing
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Basilica San Clemente, toch wel een van de spectaculairste plekken in Rome. Een 12de- eeuwse kerk, bovenop een 4de-eeuwse. Daaronder een Mithrastempel (2e) en daaronder weer een gebouwencomplex uit de 1ste eeuw en ook nog een ondergronds beekje.
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On day ten of #Rowvember 10 Northgate Street (8 Northgate Street Row) is the #BuildingOfTheDay choice. It is Grade II listed and the site of a medieval undercroft and town house, largely rebuilt as 2 shops. Image taken by Chester Photographic Survey in Autumn 1942.
ALT 10 Northgate Street (8 Northgate Street Row) is the Grade II listed site of a medieval undercroft and town house, largely rebuilt as 2 shops. Image taken by Chester Photographic Survey in Autumn 1942.
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With growing concern around the number of young people not in education, employment or training (#NEET) the University is working closely with employers to create meaningful opportunities that help students build skills, confidence & routes into careers. chester.ac.uk/about/news/art…
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Parades and Events in Chester this Christmas – The Chester blog
thechesterblog.com/2026/11/1…
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NEW Did Viking raids impoverish the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, forcing it to replace its silver coinage with copper?
New research suggests debasement was in fact a strategy to stimulate the economy, showing early medieval financial complexity
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10…
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Is it a cathedral? Is it in a city? No - it's a church in the town of Beverley. And what a church! Its glorious Gothic west front simply sings✨. I've added this view to my Atelier: digest.andymarshall.co/ateli…
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Plans submitted for up to 60 new homes at Daresbury Park ift.tt/eI3VJ90
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Rare Leprosy Strain Discovered in Early Medieval Boat Burial medievalists.net/2026/11/rar… #archaeology
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The British Empire depended upon the movement of people, commodities, and information across increasingly large distances. This lecture explores the role that architecture played in organising these flows.
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💭 How do we capture the economic value of heritage? Historic England’s ‘Developing Taxonomies for Arts, Culture and Heritage’ Project aims to create a framework to capture the value of these sectors. Learn more: bit.ly/3UASdhp
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After the Punic Wars, much of the ager publicus (public land) was occupied by the wealthy. Many held far more land than the legal limit of about 300 acres. The nobles filled their estates with slaves, who were cheap labor, while small farmers and the citizen soldiers of Rome, were pushed off their land.
Sound familiar?
Many people believe that Sulla and Caesar are responsible for the collapse of the Roman Republic, but this is far from the truth. The two dictators only exposed a rot that had existed in the state for decades before them.
Roman writers like Appian and Plutarch believed the Republic began to decline with the deaths of the Gracchi brothers, when political fracture and violence spread across Rome.
The historian Sallust dates the decline to the fall of Carthage in 146 BC, when Rome no longer feared any external enemy and replaced that fear with internal rivalries.
Instead of serving the common good, the Republic fractured and all power became concentrated in the hands of the elites, who cared more about their personal wealth and preserving Republican institutions than about passing laws that benefited common citizens.
An unhappy people and a lawless state became a perfect breeding ground for ambitious men, who exploited the rot and used it to take power: Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, and Antony.
Eventually, the Republic was replaced by Octavian’s Principate.
Today we will dive deeper into Roman Republican history to find out why the Republic eroded, and how the fall of Carthage and the deaths of the Gracchi brothers started a spiral that destroyed it.
Read on The Modern Caesar newsletter:
themoderncaesar.substack.com
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Plans submitted to demolish former hotel that was ravaged by fire ift.tt/ZeH0giC
