In addition to the podcast with issue IV.1, Ross Cowan posted some self-confessed rambling (yet interesting) notes on the Roman phalanx before the introduction of the maniple on his personal blog.

For some reason I forgot to post the blog below in early July. So mentally backdate and have a laugh at the photos...The tv-show (in Dutch and quite a bit outdated in its historical research) has been broadcast by now as well (last item of the show).

Two weeks ago on an early Sunday morning I had a Skype conference call with Murray Dahm in Australia and Stephen English and Nick Barley in the UK. Angus Wallace of the History Network recorded it all.

One of the items in the regular display at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn was a Roman discharge certificate. Although very interesting, those normally don't catch my attention like this one did.