title: An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire
author: David Mattingly
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zlib_text: # ROMAN BRITAIN
  
  ###  _A History From Beginning To End_
  
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  BY
  
  ###  HENRY FREEMAN
  
    
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Hourly History Limited
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  [Introduction](text00002.html)
  
  [The Timeline](text00003.html#sigil_toc_id_1)
  
  [Ancient Celtic Ethnicity, A Modern Invention](text00004.html#sigil_toc_id_2)
  
  [The Beginnings Of Roman Britain](text00005.html#sigil_toc_id_3)
  
  [Religion And Blending Culture In Roman
  Britain](text00006.html#sigil_toc_id_4)
  
  [The Bitter End](text00007.html#sigil_toc_id_5)
  
  [Conclusion](text00008.html)
  
  
  # Introduction
  
  From its beginning on April 21st 753 BCE, Rome gradually expanded its
  foundation and power structure to become the center of an Empire—indisputably
  one of the greatest, most tumultuous of empires in human history. Under the
  guidance of rulers from Romulus to Emperor Romulus Augustus, Rome and its
  eventual Empire spanned a little over one thousand years. Inevitably, given
  their relatively close proximity to pre