Boudica, or, How Present-Day Politics Changes The Past: The London History Show

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Sources and further reading:
Adler, E. 2008. Boudica's Speeches In Tacitus and Dio: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25471937
Hingley, R. & Unwin, C. 2006. Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. https://archive.org/details/boudicair...
Vandrei, M. “Who will be a coward when a woman leads?”: Boudica and the Victorian Female Hero. https://www1.essex.ac.uk/history/docu...
William Cowper's poem: https://allpoetry.com/Boadicea.-An-Ode
The Roman sources for Boudica: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classi...
The head of Nero: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...
My favourite kids' book on Boudica: Boudica and her Barmy Army, Valerie Wilding, 2005