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, ...

For someone so important in Britain's ancient history and its battle against invaders, there is still much archaeologists yearn to know about Queen Boudicca. She was the queen of the Iceni people ...

She fought against the Romans when they came to take her land. Her army destroyed the Roman towns of St Albans, Colchester and London. In Britain, we rule ourselves. But in the past other countries ...

Known through hostile Roman voices and scarred into the ground itself, Boudicca’s revolt was one of the most violent crises Rome ever faced in Britain. Using archaeology alongside ancient texts, this ...

The queen and warrior who led a revolt against the Romans is enjoying a national resurgence as a symbol of rebellion At the Roar Women’s Festival in Colchester last month, a very special agony aunt ...

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 ...

The burial ground of Queen Boudicca could be next to a burger restaurant in Birmingham, it has been claimed. An excavation is to take place at the site in Kings Norton after evidence it has Roman ...

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, ...