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Boudica's Lost Tribe - tonight on YouTube
🕑 Added 2024-08-25 16:29:03 +0000 UTCJoin us tonight at 7pm (BST) on the Time Team Official YouTube channel for a watchalong of another Classic Special: 'Boudica's Lost Tribe'.
Get ready to watch HERE.
Tony Robinson joins a team of archaeologists from the University of Nottingham, to investigate Venta Icenorum, at modern-day Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk. This Roman town was set-up in the heartland of the long-lost Iceni tribe, renowned for the warrior queen Boudica, who led a revolt against Roman rule, circa 61 AD. (Original broadcast date: 4th May 2011.)
Plus, we still have another Classic Special to come, especially for our Patreon members (Digger tier and above). Look out for further details very soon.
Comments
Alison
Coming to the party late here, but I want to chime in with a recommendation of an excellent novel based on the Roman conquest of Britain, called The Eagle and The Raven (author is Pauline Gedge, better known for her Egyptian historical fiction - which is also excellent). The reason I am throwing this into a discussion of actual archaeology is that her writing is so atmospheric and visceral that you get an incredibly compelling sense of what life was like at that remarkable hinge-point in history. True in all it's details? Of course not, but compelling and exciting, and worth reading anyway!
Alan McMillan
Thank you.
Dyana Mason
The historical record is thin, but archaelogy is consistent with the revolt as told by the Romans. We unlikely will never know more about her, but perhaps her people, yes.
Dyana Mason
Great special!
Alan McMillan
This is history, as we know it. It has been romanticised over the centuries,but who actually was the real Boadicea?
