Life in Roman Leicester

Walk through Leicester today and it is often hard to imagine that we are treading on over 2,000 years of history. Now, more than 80 years of archaeological excavations have taken place in the city, from Kathleen Kenyon’s seminal excavation of the Jewry Wall Roman baths in the 1930s to the current work of University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS). That makes Leicester one of the most excavated cities in Britain, giving us an exceptional insight into what life was like in the city in the past.

The Life in Roman Leicester films draw on this incredible resource of archaeological information to explore what life was like in the Roman world.