Louanne Honey, who heads up marketing for Picturehouse’s Norwich Cinema City, is credited for coming up with the initial blackboard drawing of Paddington in Gladiator armour. She said ...

They dressed slaves in Samnite armor and forced them to fight to the death. Some scholars believe that the origins of gladiator fights can be traced more north to the ancient Etruscan civilization.

No longer did they dress according to where they came from. Now gladiators were identified by the sorts of armour and weapon they carried. Murmillos brandished a sword, a shield, leg protectors ...

Some of the earliest were prisoners of war, who fought wearing their own culture's traditional armour. Later, criminals were sometimes sentenced to fight in the arena. While a gladiator’s life ...