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Hadrian’s Wall: Creating Division
Symonds provides a particularly accessible and entertaining overview of this complex monument, including the history of its construction and the role of the Wall in later history.
This important new study is written by an internationally acknowledged expert on Hadrian’s Wall who is also editor of Current World Archaeology magazine. This is the latest volume in a series on world-famous ancient monuments published by Bloomsbury, including the ancient cities of Dura-Europos, Troy, and Ur. Matt Symonds’ book joins a long lineage of volumes written about Hadrian’s Wall, beginning with The Roman Wall, published by John Collingwood Bruce in 1851. The most recent previous account is Nick Hodgson’s 2017 volume, Hadrian’s Wall: Archaeology and History at the Limit of Rome’s Empire (Hale). Symonds’ and Hodgson’s books are so different in approach and style, howev
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