tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post2884689895519199847..comments2023-10-10T11:41:33.153+01:00Comments on The Armoury: Saturday.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107533550298517814noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-44293161788278251642016-06-02T11:52:36.095+01:002016-06-02T11:52:36.095+01:00Better to fall asleep in the coach than in the the...Better to fall asleep in the coach than in the theatre. Alastair and I often went to Bath and Bristol to the theatre and I learned the hard way not to have a glass of wine at lunch.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-5580554391951508392016-05-22T20:21:59.390+01:002016-05-22T20:21:59.390+01:00Yes, thank you, Carl. Fascinating stuff. Come to t...Yes, thank you, Carl. Fascinating stuff. Come to think of it, I've an ancient silver coin kicking about my bourogh/beaurou...desk, which I bought years ago as being of the period of Boadicea/Boudicca. I'll have a look for it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07558857315748815249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-70699836826207897352016-05-22T18:15:46.472+01:002016-05-22T18:15:46.472+01:00Yes Mike, and the Roman victors destroyed British ...Yes Mike, and the Roman victors destroyed British history by wiping out the druids, whose principal function was memorising the oral traditions and records of their people's history.<br />I've put up a few images of coins and artefacts from that period on my blog 'Carl's Curios'. <br />http://carlscurios.blogspot.co.uk/<br />Crowbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350188604175280097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-80043600112841438982016-05-22T15:00:50.164+01:002016-05-22T15:00:50.164+01:00P.s. Hello Crowbard. It is, of course, a very tru...P.s. Hello Crowbard. It is, of course, a very true old saying that 'history is written by the victors'.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07558857315748815249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-60059502293943985582016-05-22T00:33:10.855+01:002016-05-22T00:33:10.855+01:00Shakespeare's Cymbeline is considered to be mo...Shakespeare's Cymbeline is considered to be modelled on the historic King Cunobelinus, a distant relative of ours and ruler of a large area of South-Eastern Britain from circa 10 AD to 42 Anno Domini when he died. He is the Cymbeline in William Shakespeare’s play of that name, but the play’s fanciful plot bears no relation to the events in Cunobelinus’s career, a sad trait emphasised by modern-day productions.<br /><br />Cunobelinus succeeded his father, Tasciovanus, as chief of the Catuvellauni, a tribe centred north of what is now London. Tasciovanus’s capital was Verlamio, to the North of the later Roman site of Verulamium (modern St. Albans). Either shortly before or shortly after his accession, Cunobelinus conquered the territory of the Trinovantes, in modern Essex. He made Camulodunum (modern Colchester) his capital and the seat of his mint. The many surviving coins from the mint are stamped with Latin slogans and figures from mythology. His power and influence were so extensively felt in Britain that the Roman biographer Suetonius referred to him as Britannorum rex (“King of the Britons”) in his "Life of the Emperor Caligula". About 40AD Cunobelinus banished his son Adminius, who thereupon fled to Rome and persuaded Caligula to make preparations to invade Britain. The expedition was assembled, but it never left the continent. After Cunobelinus’s death, his two other sons, Caratacus and Togodumnus, displayed the hostility toward Rome that gave the emperor Claudius an excuse to impose Roman rule on the island. As we have only Latin written records of this period it is possible that all the names had a more Gallic terminal rather than the Roman "-us".<br />Crowbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350188604175280097noreply@blogger.com