Once the capital of Roman Britain, this city has a history stretching back over 2,000 years and is home to one of the country’s most impressive castles. That city is Colchester in Essex.

What’s fact and what’s fiction? We’ve looked at the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD and debunked some common myths about that era, for those times you just can’t think of anything else.

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...