Ancestors: Alice Roberts in conversation with Adam Rutherford. This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans, but we know a huge amount about the Britons that lived here before them, from the burial sites they left behind. Their stories are told through their bones and funerary offerings, preserved in the ground for thousands of years. In her groundbreaking new book