Ray Laurence is professor of ancient history at Macquarie University. He has won the Routledge Ancient History Prize for his first book Roman Pompeii: Space and Society, and the Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for his book Pompeii: The Living City.

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He was educated at Leighton Park School and Newcastle University both in the United Kingdom.^[1]

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• Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (1996) ISBN 978-0415141031
• Pompeii: The Living City (2006) ISBN 978-0312355852
• Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome (2001) ISBN 978-0415202015
• The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (2011) ISBN 978-0415620062
• Roman Archaeology for Historians (2012) ISBN 978-0415505925
• Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space (2012) ISBN 978-0199583126
• The City in the Roman West (2011) ISBN 978-0521701402
• The Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity (2022) ISBN 978-1350026964
• The Cultural History of Childhood and Family in Antiquity (2010) ISBN 978-1847887948