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| | archaeology.co.uk
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| | New insights from one of Britannia's largest urban centres The first research excavation to take place at Wroxeter in more than 30 years has illuminated a previously unexplored area of one of the largest urban centres in Roman Britain. Peter Guest, Roger H White, and Mike Luke report. Almost 2,000 years ago Cornoviorum - known to us as Wroxeter - was the fourth-largest public city in Roman Britain, equivalent in area to Pompeii. The Shropshire site has played an influential role in the study of urbanism in the Roman period since the first excavations took place there in the 1850s
| | bobbie.net
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| | Alison Gill and Peter Smithson were just a couple of kids from Northern England when they met as architecture students at university in Durham in the 1940s. They had a lot in common: their obsession with buildings, of course, but also their politics and their vision for the future. Their attraction and mutual sympathies turned...
| | heritagecalling.com
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| | On this day one hundred years ago - 13 June 1917 - Upper North Street School, Poplar, London, was bombed in the first daylight air raid of the First World War.
| | crosscut.com
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| Proponents argue the new law will bolster treatment for substance-use disorders, while critics have called it a War on Drugs 2.0.