Talk 2: Silchester: Life in the Roman City

What:

A series of three talks at Reading Museum & Town Hall, by Professor Michael Fulford CBE, FBA, FSA, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. Professor Fulford specialises in the British Iron Age, Roman Britain and landscape archaeology.

Reading Museum, with support from the Friends of Reading Museum, have organised the talks to raise funds for the redevelopment of the Silchester Roman Gallery.

Talk 2: Silchester: Life in the Roman City

We will explore the results of recent excavations by the university which have given us multiple insights into the life of the inhabitants of Roman Silchester: the buildings they inhabited and how they changed over time; their occupations, the food and drink they consumed, their health, their leisure time in the bath house and amphitheatre, the animals they kept, and the way they expressed relations with the gods and managed their own superstitions and anxieties.

Who:

Adults