Re-invented by the Victorians, under the name of Boadicea, Boudicca was presented as an idol of nationalism, of British warrior tradition and, somewhat incongruently, as a figurehead of imperialism, ...

There are some lines of William Cowper inscribed on the plinth of the bronze statue of Boadicea near Westminster Bridge in central London: "Regions Caesar never knew/Thy posterity shall sway." The ...

Once the British Isles were seen as a stronghold of female leadership. Patriarchal culture pushed these stories to the geographical margins – yet they live on, a force too potent to ignore Throughout ...

Early on a Norwich autumn morning, and I was standing naked in a hotel room. On the bed lay my new walking clothes: walking trousers, expensive pants at the cutting edge of underwear technology, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Boudicca led Celtic tribes in an uprising against the Roman occupation of Britain around 61 AD. Her ...

As warrior Queen Boudicca and her army advanced on the town of Colchester almost 2,000 years ago, a terrified Roman woman stashed her most valuable possessions in the ground. This is the belief of ...