Roman Britain in Twenty Towns: a visitor’s guide

The idea of a guidebook is an ancient one – Pausanias’ Guide to Greece is perhaps the first – but these days the idea of wandering around sites clutching a book conveying detailed information might be thought to be superfluous for a digital age. Books, however, have a real advantage – they don’t need batteries or connectivity – so they will always have a role. Writing a good guidebook, however, is hard to do – how much detail to include, and which sites to pick? From the outset, Richard Hingley, a prolific and energetic author and researcher of the province, makes it clear that this is a personal but not comprehensive selection of the towns of Roman Britain. Some omissions can