One of my favourite memes of recent times? When, a couple of years back, women began asking men how often they thought about the Roman Empire. It transpired that more often than not the answer was “quite a lot, actually”. Which is fair enough. The Romans absolutely smashed it.
Look at their roads, for example. They were unbelievable at them. One of their first in Britain was Ermine Street, known as — are you excited? — Kingsland Road today. It runs from Old Street up to Dalston Junction and I think the Romans, who were gladiatorial drinkers, would’ve loved all the places to inebriate: Seed Library, Three Sheets, A Bar with Shapes for a Name, Bar Lotus.
