ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the complexity of person biographies within the context of Britain and the Roman Empire. Roman Britain is as much about their lives and identities as it is about the indigenous peoples. Within studies of the history of the British Empire there has also now been a return of interest of the British people whose lives and identities were shaped through their jobs and movements around the Empire. For a time at least in historical studies, the study of their lives was considered unfashionable because of the negative connotations of the colonial oppressive elite, and important new work was focusing on the lives of the indigenous peoples instead. There were imperial networks of people, travel and communication, but within these, each person also had his or her own unique life trajectories formed through his or her accumulated experiences in different parts of the Empire.
