For a brief moment, it seemed as though she might succeed in driving the Romans out of Britain entirely. Despite her early successes, Boudica’s rebellion ultimately faced a well-organized Roman ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...

The Hawkedon Helmet is the only confirmed piece of gladiatorial armour from Roman Britain, possibly plundered from Colchester - known then as Camulodunum - during Boudica's rebellion of AD60.

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal ... in Iron Age England, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, noting their ...

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome conquering Britain from around AD 44 to 84, they described women holding positions of power. These include the famous warrior queen Boudica ...

This is partly owed to their burial in chalk earth. Most other societies in Britain during the Iron Age either cremated bodies or buried them in wetlands, meaning they were not preserved.

For the first time since 1986, Viscountess Boudica dug out her Valentine paraphernalia of paper hearts, banners, fairylights, candles and other pink stuff to put on this show as an encouragement to ...

A study offers proof of a society that was organised around women Credit: Bournemouth University/PA The Romans wrote about Boudica and Cartimandua after arriving in Britain in the first century AD ...

But considering the well-known power and military accomplishments of Celtic queens such as Boudica of the Iceni ... of the role of women in iron age Britain. Instead, it is being framed as ...