2000 Years of Travelling Between London and Cambridge
It is a truth universally acknowledged ... that when you have a group of people living in some place A, some of them will wish to be in place B, and vice versa, hence travel. But how has travel changed over the last 2000 years? Let's have a look at the case where place A is Cambridge and place B is London... Precisely 2000 years ago in AD20 there may not have been much travel between the two, as London didn't really exist and Cambridge was in a different tribal region. However Claudius launched the Roman conquest of Britain in AD43, and by AD47 the whole south-east had been subjugated. Roman Cambridge, named Duroliponte, was founded around AD70, initially as a miltary camp on the site of an Iron Age fort. London, founded soon after the Roman invasion, was burnt down by Boudicca in AD61, but soon bounced back. Before long the Romans had constructed an extensive road network. London was connected to Cambridge by Ermine Street, which ran from Bishopsgate in London along the rout