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Activity: Ask the pupils to make a timeline with annotations and pictures to show the key events of Boudica’s life. As an art activity, children could design and create a shield for Boudica to use in one of her heroic battles. The shield could be designed to show important parts of Boudica’s life, such as the name of the tribe she ruled, the towns she conquered, images of herself and her daughters, a motto she might use, etc. From Media Molecule or Sumo Digital via special promotions, or by purchasing Qore Episode 24 from the PlayStation Store. Cunliffe, Barry W (1978). Iron Age Communities in Britain: an account of England, Scotland, and Wales from the seventh century BC until the Roman conquest. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p.143. ISBN 978-0-7100-8725-6.

In the Roman accounts, Boudica fought for freedom from the Romans, a colonial oppressor she viewed as greedy and immoral. According to Tacitus, after the death of her husband, the client king Prasutagus, Boudica’s life took a dark turn. The Romans beat her and assaulted her daughters. They enslaved her relatives and confiscated Prasutagus’ land and ancestral wealth. Boudica’s motivations for revenge are personal, but her experiences provide a case study for the broader impact of Roman imperial expansion.Boudica was called 'Voadicia' in the English historian Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, published between 1577 and 1587. [38] [40] A narrative by the Florentine scholar Petruccio Ubaldini in The Lives of the Noble Ladies of the Kingdom of England and Scotland (1591) includes two female characters, 'Voadicia' and 'Bunduica', both based on Boudica. [38] From the 1570s to the 1590s, when Elizabeth I's England was at war with Spain, Boudica proved to be a valuable asset for the English. [41] Comprehension skills develop through pupils’ experience of high-quality discussion with the teacher, as well as from reading and discussing a range of stories, poems and non-fiction. All pupils must be encouraged to read widely across both fiction and non-fiction to develop their knowledge of themselves and the world in which they live, to establish an appreciation and love of reading, and to gain knowledge across the curriculum Frénée, Samantha (2012). "Warrior Queens in Holinshed's Woodcuts". Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes (Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies). 23 (23): 417–433. doi: 10.4000/crm.12859. For example, Boudica’s followers in her rebellion in this film include “Saxons”, led by a warrior called Wolfgar (Peter Franzén). The Saxons did not arrive in Britain until centuries after Boudica, so they couldn’t have fought against Romans in first-century AD Britain. Films always need to be given some leeway. Wall, Martin (2022). "2. The treacherous lioness: Boudicca and the great British revolt (60–61)". The Lost Battlefields of Britain. Stroud, England: Amberley. ISBN 978-1445697086.

Tacitus, Cornelius (1906). Fisher, Charles Dennis (ed.). Annales ab excessu divi Augusti (Latin text). Oxford: Clarendon Press. This History primary resource assists with teaching the following Social Studies First level objective from the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence: Davies, John A. (2008). The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk. Oxford: Oxford Books. ISBN 978-1-905223-33-6. OCLC 458727322.

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Tacitus. Annals. p.14.33. eadem clades municipio Verulamio fuit – Like ruin fell on the town of Verulamium

Boudica could hardly have imagined her story to last for millennia, nor would she have recognised herself as a harbinger of the British Empire, a figure of nationalism, a symbol for suffragists or a supporter of Brexit. British queens and female politicians have adapted her warrior identity. Elizabeth I was compared with the outspoken warrior, and Queen Victoria embraced her as a precursor, a Celtic Victoria. In the 20th century, Margaret Thatcher was known as a political battleaxe, a ‘Boadicea in pearls’. More recently, Theresa May was dubbed the ‘Brexit Boadicea’. Boudica’s resistance to the Romans is recast as removal from the EU, her defeat overlooked by Brexit supporters. In autumn 2018, her story played out on the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe in the form of Tristan Bernays’s play Boudica, perhaps warning against ‘the danger of splenetic isolation’. Not all the Romans are depicted as horrid. Emperor Nero (Harry Kirton), who resides in the city of Rome, is a troubled figure who wants to be a musician and seems to abhor violence. In 60/61, Boudica led the Iceni and other British tribes in revolt. They destroyed Camulodunum (modern Colchester), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, but at that time a colonia for discharged Roman soldiers. Upon hearing of the revolt, the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus hurried from the island of Mona (modern Anglesey) to Londinium, the 20-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels' next target. Unable to defend the settlement, he evacuated and abandoned it. Boudica's army defeated a detachment of the Legio IX Hispana, and burnt both Londinium and Verulamium. In all, an estimated 70,000–80,000 Romans and Britons were killed by Boudica's followers. Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces, possibly in the West Midlands, and despite being heavily outnumbered, he decisively defeated the Britons. Boudica died, by suicide or illness, shortly afterwards. The crisis of 60/61 caused Nero to consider withdrawing all his imperial forces from Britain, but Suetonius's victory over Boudica confirmed Roman control of the province. Boudica was the consort of Prasutagus, king of the Iceni, [note 1] a tribe who inhabited what is now the English county of Norfolk and parts of the neighbouring counties of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. [11] They produced some of the earliest known British coins. [12] They had revolted against the Romans in 47 when the Roman governor Publius Ostorius Scapula planned to disarm all the peoples of Britain under Roman control. The Romans allowed the kingdom to retain its independence once the uprising was suppressed. [13] Events leading to the revolt [ edit ] A "vocal minority" has claimed Boudica as a Celtic Welsh heroine. [56] A statue of Boudica in the Marble Hall at Cardiff City Hall was among those unveiled by David Lloyd George in 1916, though the choice had gained little support in a public vote. [57] [56] It shows her with her daughters and without warrior trappings. [58]Boudica herself is flogged and dispossessed of her territories, while the Romans kill her two young daughters. This is unclear until some way through the film, since the ghostly forms of the young girls appear in subsequent actions to advise Boudica on her campaign. Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.

Frénée-Hutchins, Samantha (2016). Boudica's Odyssey in Early Modern England. London; New York: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-13171-7-296-3.Boudica's husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two daughters, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome. He left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. When he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. [1] The historian Cassius Dio wrote that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons. Cassius Dio began his history of Rome and its empire about 140 years after Boudica's death. Much is lost and his account of Boudica survives only in the epitome of an 11th century Byzantine monk, John Xiphilinus. He provides greater and more lurid detail than Tacitus, but in general his details are often fictitious. [5] [6] I can assess the impact for those involved in a specific instance of the expansion of power and influence in the past. In our National Geographic Kids primary resource sheet, pupils will discover the significant events that occurred during Boudica’s lifetime, and learn about the important role she played following the Roman invasion of Britain.