It's the ancients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and could it be? Could

football really be coming home? It's England vs Italy and in this podcast we're

really going to jump on that bandwagon. We're talking England vs Italy, ancient style

kind of. We're talking all about the two expeditions to Britain by the Roman general Julius

Caesar. Caesar's invasions are written in 55 and 54 BC. In this podcast we're going to be

going into incredible detail. We're going into the nitty gritty detail of these two expeditions

and joining me to talk all about this is Dr Simon Elliott, an ancient regular and

ancient legend. Simon is a fantastic speaker. It was great to get him on the podcast at such

short notice and without further ado, here's Simon. Simon is back. Great to have you back

on the podcast. Always absolute pleasure to be on the podcast with all my friends at history

hitting including you Tristan, especially on such a fantastic day. It is such a fantastic

day. It's coming home. England vs Italy, ancient style. We're talking about Julius Caesar's

invasions of Britain because Simon, this does really feel like a watershed moment in the

history of Britain. It's worth remembering that, Tristan, that when you're looking at the

Caesarean invasions of Britain, which were in 55 and 54 BC, it's definitely a game of two

halves because in the first instance you've got the 55 BC sort of invasion, which is the

first half. Then the second invasion is 54 BC, the second half. In the natural fact for

the Roman conquest of Britain, of course, it goes to extra time because you've got the

Claudine invasion in 8043, which in actual fact goes to penalty shootout on the river medway,

which the Italians, the Romans eventually sort of went ultimately, but certainly for

the Caesarean invasions, so the first half and the second half, the victors were there

British because Caesar came and saw but didn't conquer. I love that analogy. That was brilliant

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