Celts, Romans, Britons

Francesca Kaminski-Jones studied for a BA in Classics and English at Oxford, followed by an MA in Classics at UCL and (currently ongoing) a Classics PhD at RHUL, under the supervision of Dr Nick Lowe. Her research interests include simile theory, classical reception (especially modern receptions of Homer), and women's participation in the classics. Since November 2019 she has been the assistant coordinator of the London Hellenic Prize, which awards an annual prize of £10,000 to the best original work in the English language inspired by Hellenic civilization.Rhys Kaminski-Jones's work focuses on connections between Welsh, English, and other Celtic literatures during the eighteenth century and the Romantic era, and on building links between Celtic Studies and other academic disciplines. Having studied for a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and an MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, Rhys joined the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies as a doctoral student in 2012, researching the cultural significance of the Ancient Britons during the long eighteenth century.

• 1: Rhys Kaminski-Jones and Francesca Kaminski-Jones: Celts, Romans, Britons: Introduction 2: British Ethnogenesis: A Late Antique Story 3: Michael D.J. Bintley: Romans, Britons, and the Construction of 'Anglo-Saxon' Identity 4: Helen Fulton: Origins and Introductions: Troy and Rome in Medieval British and Irish Writing 5: Philip Schwyzer: The Politics of British Antiquity and the Descent from Troy in the Early Stuart Era 6: M. Pía Coira: Greek Gaels, British Gaels: Classical allusion in early-modern Scottish Gaelic poetry 7: Mary-Ann Constantine: Celts and Romans on tour: Visions of early Britain in eighteenth-century travel literature 8: Edith Hall: British Imperialist and/or Avatar of Welshness?: Caractacus Performances in the Long Nineteenth Century 9: Arabella Currie: Moderns of the past, moderns of the future: George Sigerson's Celtic-Romans in Ireland, 1897-1922 10: Philip Burton: Alternative Histories: Crypto-Celts and Crypto-Romans in the Legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien 11: Richard Hingley: Hadrian's Wall: An allegory for British disunity Appendix Bibliography Index

Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities makes a distinguished contribution to the field, bringing together a number of experts who keep the classical recordin which the Celts are embeddedfirmly in view throughout.