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A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

it's just between us.

Hello and welcome back to this special History Extra, of roman britain podcast series this is episode

free and i am david musgrove your host for the series last time i talked to professor wilbaud

to get the background or what we know about late roman britain the politics of its time and the conditions on the ground

this time we're going to turn our attention to the roman army on the assumption that one of the facets and the conditions on the ground. This time we're going to turn our attention

to the Roman army on the assumption that one of the facets of the end of Roman Britain was the

withdrawal of Roman legions. Our guy today is Dr. Rob Collins, lecturer in archaeology at the

University of Newcastle, an expert on the Roman military and specifically on that most famous

of Roman defensive boundaries,

Hadrian's Wall. The first thing I asked him to do was to give us a top-line summary of his position

on what happened at the end of Roman Britain. So over to Rob.

For me, the end of Roman Britain actually is not one straight story. It's a series of a whole bunch of different stories that really depends on where you lived in Roman Britain when it comes to an end. So I'm sitting up here on Hadrian's wall, and the end of Roman Britain is something that's happening in my mind, very largely to the South. So it's not to say the end of Roman Britain

doesn't affect all of Britain. It absolutely does. But the effects of that end are felt very

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