Kim Bowes: belief

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…Give or take. If you need another day, that’s fine. I think I would start them off at Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall is extraordinary for a whole bunch of reasons. As one of the few places the Romans actually built a border, it’s an extraordinary statement of empire. This amazing archaeological site at Vindolanda, which is actually run by family and excavated by family, is just such an eye-opener to see how ordinary people—soldiers, very often, most of whom, of course, are not Italian; they’re recruited from Gaul—they’re recruited from all over the place, are living up in, literally, for what was, for them, the end of the world. You can see everything from their shoes to pieces of their clothing to their very grubby daily lives. You go first, I think, to there. You’re going to skip the heart of the empire, are you? Your person is sick of Italy and sick of Rome. They’re not sick of Italy, but they’ve done Rome. Everyone knows to go there. You send them to Trier, to Segovia, to Split?…

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