Invasion of Britain under Claudius

[Marshal Murat]

I was wondering if there was any websites, books, magazines, etc. were available about the invasion by Claudius, any subsequent Emperors. I know Caeser, but I was curious about any other invasions.

[King Henry V]

The Eagle series by Simon Scarrow are good historical novels set during the time of the Invasion of Britannia in 43 AD.

[caesar44]

Caesar invasion - http://www.athenapub.com/caesar1.htm
Claudius invasion - http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/his_roman_invasion.htm

[Flavius Clemens]

The Independent on Sunday had an interesting article on 26th June(http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article294854.ece)
arguing

"The history of Britain will have to be rewritten. The AD43 Roman invasion never happened - and was simply a piece of sophisticated political spin by a weak Emperor Claudius."

Unfortunately it's too old to get free online access (it says you can buy the article for a pound), but from memory the argument they put forward was that at the time of the invasion several of the ancient British kingdoms in the south were basically protectorates of Rome and Claudius made an overblown statement of his intervention to bolster his image in Rome to consolidate his power in the early days of his rule.

They quoted archaeological evidence of Roman artifacts including pottery and a legionary's sword being found in Briton pre-dating AD 43.

I found the article interesting but not necessarily convincing. Pottery from Gaul seems to me just to prove trade links, and as far as I know there was never any doubt that there would be trade across the English Channel at the time. Neither does one gladius prove Roman occupation. I visited the Museum of Scotland in the Spring and they had a number of Roman artifacts from areas that were never under Roman control. Diplomatic contact and political bribery took Roman products past the imperial borders.

It was an interesting idea though - the Independent on Sunday seems to have a thing for ancient history at the moment, recently they've carried articles recently about the discovery of a luxurious Roman 'hotel' in Colchester and the suggestion Alexander the Great died of malaria.