''Britannia'' is an annual

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published by

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on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. It was established in 1970 and the first

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was

Sheppard Frere Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA (23 August 1916 – 26 February 2015) was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire. He was a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Biography The son of Noel Gray Frere, of the ...

. The journal covers research on the province of

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. Julius Caes ...

Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ...

and post-Roman Britain, and western provincial

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

, as well as excavation reports. It was established because of the large increase in archaeological excavations, increased publication costs, and in order to establish coherence to the field of Roman Britain. The journal includes the section ''Roman Britain in...'' which summarises sites explored and inscriptions, and which continue the series '' Roman Inscriptions of Britain''. In 2017 the conference "Retrospect and Prospect: 50 years of Britannia and the state of Romano-British archaeology" was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the journal. The current editor is Hella Eckardt.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: *

(1970-) *Simon Esmonde Cleary (2004-2009) *Barry C. Burnham (-2018) * Hella Eckardt (2019–present)

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, Linguistic Bibliography, and

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* {{Authority control Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United Kingdom Cambridge University Press academic journals British history journals Annual journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 1970