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, ...

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 ...

She was the queen of the Iceni people inhabiting East Anglia, what is now largely referred to as the East of England and was married to Prasutagus, the king and ruler of the Icenis. For someone so ...

Boudicca, the warrior queen of the Iceni tribe, has become a symbol of resistance and British defiance. But what do we really know about her, and her bloody revolt against Roman rule? Dr Shushma Malik ...

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 ...

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, ...