Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410.

Modern quotes

• But the Roman came with a heavy hand,
  And bridged and roaded and ruled the land,
  And the Roman left and the Danes blew in—
  And that's where your history-books begin!
  • Rudyard Kipling, "The River’s Tale (Prehistoric)" in C. R. L. Fletcher, A History of England (1911)

• Then, ’twas before my time, the Roman
    At yonder heaving hill would stare.
  The blood that warms an English yeoman,
    The thoughts that hurt him, they were there.
  There, like the wind through woods in riot,
    Through him the gale of life blew high;
  The tree of man was never quiet:
    Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
  The gale, it plies the saplings double,
    It blows so hard, ’twill soon be gone:
  To-day the Roman and his trouble
    Are ashes under Uricon.
  • A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896), XXXI, sts. 3–6