Revealing the Ancient World

This is Britain’s history in pots - the same ingredients, clay and fire, but 6000 years of innovation and experiment.

Discover the central role dress played in all aspects of Roman life, from the cut and thrust of political life down to daily interactions on the street.

Archaeologist Maureen Carroll provides new insights into birth, infancy and earliest childhood in the Roman world.

Historian Paul Cartledge discusses democracy’s many different manifestations from ancient times through to the ‘lamentable’ Brexit referendum campaign and successive events.

Join us for a game of 'Who's coming for dinner?' and learn how science is rediscovering the diets of people living in the first millennium Mediterranean.