Place names in Roman Britain | In The Silver Branch | Rosemary Sutcliff Discovery of the Day

Tanatus – Thanet
Acqua Sulis – Bath
Venta – Winchester
Laighin – Leinster
Dubris – Dover
Eburacum – York
Calleva – Silchester
Portus Adurni – Portchester
Regnum – Chichester
Vectis – Isle of Wight
Anderida – Pevensey
Durovernum – Canterbury

Author: Anthony Lawton

Chair, Sussex Dolphin, family company which looks after the work of eminent children’s & historical fiction author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). Formerly CEO, chair & trustee of various charity, cultural & educational enterprises in UK. View all posts by Anthony Lawton

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RT @manderleypress: Thanks to @thebookseller for sharing - breaking news: the 2nd @manderleypress title is now officially announced 🎉 - th… | 23 hours ago

Wonderful to have a new edition of Rosemary Sutcliff’s #TheArmourersHouse in the offing. Thank you @manderleypress.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… | 23 hours ago

RT @thebookseller: .@manderleypress has announced it will be publishing The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliff in 2022, a children's boo… | 23 hours ago

@iainmillar18 The second a great ‘birthday’ present (mine 2 days later), Rosemary Sutcliff’s on 14th Dec! | 4 days ago

A re issue as e-book of Rosemary Sutcliff’s only story set in The Ottoman Empire. Scot Thomas Keith, a former appre… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… | 4 days ago

Coming soon, new e-book of one of Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel written for adults, The Flowers of Adonis —… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… | 4 days ago

@iainmillar18 When is publication date? | 4 days ago

@iainmillar18 Indeed. Looking forward to it. Both rather neglected but excellent novels. I hope someone at Netflix… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… | 4 days ago

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the guardian newspaper in praise of rosemary sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff‘s 1954 children’s classic The Eagle of the Ninth (still in print more than 50 years on) is the first of a series of novels in which Sutcliff, who died in 1992, explored the cultural borderlands between the Roman and the British worlds – “a place where two worlds met without mingling” as she describes the British town to which Marcus, the novel’s central character, is posted.

Marcus is a typical Sutcliff hero, a dutiful Roman who is increasingly drawn to the British world of “other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling”. This existential cultural conflict gets even stronger in later books like The Lantern Bearers and Dawn Wind, set after the fall of Rome, and has modern resonance. But Sutcliff was not just a one-trick writer.

The range of her novels spans from the Bronze Age and Norman England to the Napoleonic wars. Two of her best, The Rider of the White Horse and Simon, are set in the 17th century and are marked by Sutcliff’s unusually sympathetic (for English historical novelists of her era) treatment of Cromwell and the parliamentary cause. Sutcliff’s finest books find liberal-minded members of elites wrestling with uncomfortable epochal changes. From Marcus Aquila to Simon Carey, one senses, they might even have been Guardian readers.

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