I am embarking on a new MOOC, a Massive Open On-line Course, run by FutureLearn; this time I am studying Hadrian’s Wall for six weeks on a course run by the University of Newcastle. I am interested in all aspects of history, and although my areas of particular interest are pre-Roman and the so-called Dark Ages, I am really looking forward to finding out more about the five hundred or so years Britain was part of the Roman Empire.
This is what the course will cover:
- A story of an empire which denied all limits to its power, establishing a heavily fortified frontier across the centre of Britain.
- A story of a ‘Roman’ wall, built and manned by an army of soldiers most of whom had never set foot in Italy.
- It is the story of one of the most enduring archaeological monuments, which changed repeatedly during over three and a half centuries of occupation.
- And it is a story of people drawn from across a vast empire, living, loving and dying on a line from Bowness on the River Solway on the west coast to South Shields on the River Tyne on the east.
No doubt I will be posting about what I’m learning and doing… I have been to the wall several times, the last time I encountered a headless man:
Lois Elsden 
Looking forward to this
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