Boudicca was an ancient Celtic warrior Queen who lead an army in a rebellion against the Roman Empire. The story of this brave woman’s life has often been reduced to just a few sentences in a textbook, and that’s because there is very little known about her life. There were just two Roman historians; Tacitus and Cassius Dio, who wrote down information about Boudicca. So everything we know about her is skewed from the enemy’s perspective, and both of their versions of the story vary slightly from the other.
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Source/Further reading:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/boudicca.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G01vm9MVa4
https://www.history.com/news/who-was-boudica
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Watling-Street
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/tacitus.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1310654/Chariot-queens-grave-unearthed.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263242332_Chariots_and_context_New_radiocarbon_dates_from_wetwang_and_the_chronology_of_iron_age_burials_and_brooches_in_East_Yorkshire
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18674980
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Boudica/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwM2touF08
Secondary Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_warfare