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Activity: "Zeus on the Loose" Card game

I bought this in a charity shop and can confirm that I have checked it out and it is actually child-safe (I wasn't 100% sure given the...

We made a laurel wreath at a family activity at Welwyn

Burgh Castle Roman Fort is a free-to-access English Heritage site, run in association with Norfolk Archaeological Trust. The site...

So! We began 2021 with a look at Romans and the sea. We had a day at the seaside at Gorleston (next to Great Yarmouth) where there is a...

This is a great recap of British prehistory through the Romans and moving on to introduce the Anglo-Saxons. The visit had to wait until I...

This was added onto our July 2020 "what is still open during this pandemic" tour. Bath has the definitive Roman Baths in the UK because...

Post-covid you can only attend this small site in groups, but it is worth trying to find as it is a surprise private Roman bathhouse...

With amphitheatre across the road! Outside the main museum are a variety of other "Roman" attractions - the two big ones being a Roman...

The Fitzwilliam Museum was relevant for two reasons - it has a Greco-Roman gallery, but also, it has an imposing (19th Century)...

July 2021: Restarting history visits after a long autumn, winter and spring of coronavirus restrictions, we have now moved properly onto...

As a minor time-filling activity we had a brief introduction to Roman numerals. We started with pencil and paper introduction to how the...

I initially felt that I wouldn't need to get any Roman mythology books for this project as we already had anthologies of Greek myths from...

Following the success of the Stone Age Food activity I had a request to try Roman food - yet again Waitrose is your go-to supplier of...

Bake Libum "cheesecake" (a soft bread based on ricotta cheese). These are two current internet versions of an Ancient Roman recipe from...

Go to the Fitzwilliam. Look at vases. Draw your own (Baker Ross).

Horses were domesticated in Britain from the start of the Bronze Age, but it is thought that initially they were only used to pull carts...

An Usborne Early Reader covering the famous story of Androcles and the Lion - a runaway Roman slave helps out a wild lion by removing the...

Hot steamy bath, oil & strigil, cold paddling pool plunge!

A CGI Asterix film (this version dubbed in English) loosely based on one of the books, but with a refreshing rewrite to include a girl as...

A CGI Asterix film (this version dubbed in English) based on one of the books (expanded slightly to fill the time). The story follows a...