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A Pillock's Guide To British History12 | Hadrian's Wall - The one with the Overcompensation - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryEmperor Hadrian visits Britannia and puts up a massive wall between him and the lunatics living in what is now Scotland. Which seems fair enough. Possibly it was a bit of overkill though.TranscriptSo the period where the Romans were conquering Britain has ended by our estimation, and we are now properly into Roman Britain. It’s a bit arbitrary, but we are going with it. Governor Agricola got about as far North into Scotland as the Romans ever would. England was mostly under proper control and the Welsh weren't being an issue anymore. This was good fo...2018-09-1622 minA Pillock's Guide To British History11.1 | The Flavian Emperors - The one with the mixed bag - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryAgricola was knocking about in Britain for a big chunk of a whole dynasty of Roman Emperors. Some of them were nice, but one of them was a proper shitbag. Introducing The Flavians.TranscriptIn our history of Britain episode, we had a quick going over Agricola and his march north through Wales, England and Scotland. He was governor of Britannia for ages, compared to the average, he was knocking about on our island for about seven years. And his time in charge of the province spanned three Emperors back in Rome. In fact, he covered all three...2018-08-2216 minA Pillock's Guide To British History11 | Agricola & The End Of The Roman Invasion - The one where they reach the top - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Romans have finally reached about as far north as they will in Britain, with governor Agricola having a proper fight with the Scottish tribes. He even sort of wins it.Transcript The next governor was Gnaeus Julius Agricola, and once we get to the end of his governorship we are going to call that the end of the 41ish year long Roman invasion of Britain. That is fairly arbitrary, but they had spent the last 40 years consistently gaining more and more territory, and by the end of Agricola they will have got about as far as t...2018-08-1514 minA Pillock's Guide To British History10.1 | The Year Of The Four Emperors - the one where everyone wants to be in charge - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryNero is dead, and it got so bad after that people must have almost missed him. The Year Of The Four Emperors is exactly what it says on the tin.Transcript In our last History of Britain episode we went over what was going on in Britain after Boudiccia. The event that cast a long shadow over that was the Year of The Four Emperors. It was a right old mess. So let's have a look at that.This week we ask ourselves how bad does a posh job have to be before people stop wanting i...2018-06-2010 minA Pillock's Guide To British History9.1 | Emperor Nero - The one where everyone is proper horrible - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryYou've heard of Emperor Nero. We all have. We doubt it was good stuff you did hear. apart from him getting a decent tune out of a fiddle. Let's have a look at if he was as big a dickhead as he looked.Transcript – Emperor NeroWe have got all the way to 60/61 AD in our history of Britain. Which means we have already had Nero as Emperor of Rome for about 6 years. Since he is an emperor everyone has heard of, if only for his excellent coffee franchises, we though he should get his own episode. An...2018-06-0717 minA Pillock's Guide To British History9 | Boudica - The One Where Everyone Looks A Bit Rubbish - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Romans have been winding everyone up. Come 60 AD and Boudica was having none of it. She and her mates had a go at fucking things up.Transcript – BoudicaEven in the bits of Britain, which had been under Roman control from when Claudius and Plautius turned up in 43 AD, some Britons weren't on board with the whole Britannia thing. One of the most famous of them was Boudicca. And she gave the Romans a proper black eye in a pretty sizable revolt.Now before we go into who she was and what happened, let's address the wh...2018-05-2822 minA Pillock's Guide To British History8.1 | Roman Religion - The One With Sad Times For Druids - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Romans loved a bit of religion. We are told they took it seriously, although if you see their gods, that's hard to believe. What they did take seriously was religions they didn't like. Ask the druids. Except you can't. The Romans wiped them out. Transcript – Roman Religion Religion was important to the Romans, but in a few ways, they were a bit more sensible with it than we are. So let's have a look at religion in Rome before Christianity turned up.This week we ask the questions, what did the Romans believe? When will...2018-05-1119 minA Pillock's Guide To British History8 | Didius, Suetonius & Mad Druids - The One With A Terrible Divorce - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Romans are making progress, but it keeps going a bit wrong. From heroic sounding freedom fighters to tetchy divorces, the Britons are making it hard.Transcript – Didius, Suetonius & Mad Druids At this point in our history of Britain, the governor, Scapula is dead, the great Briton hope, Caracticus is living it up in Rome. So he wasn’t giving anyone much hope anymore. The Romans were not exactly in the best nick. They had a decent handle on South East England, and South West England seemed fairly calm. The rest of what the Romans wanted to call...2018-04-3010 minA Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Roman Army - The One With The Point Of The Roman Empire - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryRome was all about it's army. In fact the whole Empire feels like it was an army with some cities hanging off it. It made them terrible neighbors but a pretty successful civilisation. Who how was it organised?Transcript – The Roman Army We have been banging on about these Romans for weeks now. In particular we have been banging on about the Roman army, which isn't surprising since that's how Romans tended to introduce themselves to new regions, through the medium of many, many soldiers. The Roman army was a pretty impressive proposition, and we will go ove...2018-04-2311 minA Pillock's Guide To British History7 | Scapula & Caractacus - The One With A Lucky King - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Romans have landed and they are here to stay. For a bit. So how did they get on cracking down on the Britons in the early years?Transcript- Caractacus & Scapula In our last visit to Roman Britain we finally got around to the Romans establishing themselves on our little island in 43 AD. As little as Britain may be, Claudius didn’t have proper control of much of it. We say Claudius, because he was the emperor, and he had claimed the invasion as a win for himself. Really it was his general Plautius who did all the...2018-04-0314 minA Pillock's Guide To British History6.1 | Roman Citizenship. The One With Legal Chat & Torture - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryRoman citizenship was more contentious than European Union citizenship. We cover what it was, who got it and what it got you. It was pretty useful, if only as a handy bribe to the scroty regions of the Roman Empire. Like Britannia. Transcript- Roman Citizens and Other ScrotesIn our last episode we set up who the Tribes of Britain were. We thought it was about time we talked about some folk other than Roman Emperors. But what about the people already within the Roman Empire? What were they up to? Well it was a massive place, s...2018-03-1212 minA Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThe Tribes Of Britain. The One With The Pre-Roman Geography - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryPre Roman Britain is a bit like English football before the Premier League. Loads must have happened, but nobody talks about it. To be fair, for pre-Roman Britain, that's mostly because we don't know all that much about it. So here's what 21st Century Pillock could find.Transcript – The Tribes Of Britain. The One With The Pre- Roman GeographyWe finally have Roman Britain. They are here and they are here to stay. For a bit anyway. Hopefully, that won’t come to a surprise to anyone who was under the impression that Britain was still part of the...2018-02-2413 minA Pillock's Guide To British History5.1 | Claudius As Roman Emperor. The One With The Breath Of Fresh Air - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryHas Rome got actually got themselves a decent Roman Emperor? Not only an effective Emperor but one who doesn't cause a civil war every 5 minutes? Don't get too excited though, it wasn't all beer and skittles in Claudius' Rome. Transcript – Claudius As Roman Emperor. The One With The Breath Of Fresh Air Our last history of Britain episode we went over Claudius and what he wanted everyone to think was his invasion of Britain.In this companion episode we ask ourselves can a Roman Emperor ever be anything other than a nightmare for the Romans? What...2018-02-1518 minA Pillock's Guide To British History5 | Claudius Invades Britain - The One Where They Finally Get It Done - A Pillock's Guide To British HistoryThere is a new emperor in town, and Claudius wants a piece of Britain. Finally. We were starting to think it was something we said. So why did Claudius finally get it done properly? How did he get it done? Was he a master of PR?Transcript – Claudius Invades Britain. The One Where They Finally Get It Done. By this point in our history of Britain, the Romans have been thinking about taking over the British Isles for nearly 100 years. We’ve had Julius Caesar turning up in Britain, as a proper token effort, to make p...2018-02-0320 min