#170 Female Leaders and how Boudica Torched London! (Part 1)

Oh What A Time...

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week we have three stories of incredible female leaders from throughout history: Queen Boudica and how she took on the Romans, trailblazer author Christine de Pizan and lastly, the terrifying story of 1700s pirate Shi Yang!

Plus, Chris’ milkman has become the first milkman to be a freeman of the city of London. Has your milkman done anything as impressive? Please let us know: hello@ohwhatatime.com

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
0:06.4	plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access
0:11.9	to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water
0:16.9	Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in
0:21.7	history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash
0:27.1	oh what a time hello and welcome to, oh, what a time.
0:42.6	It's a history podcast and something quite historic happen this moment.
0:46.9	My wife specifically engaged our local milkman, Steve, in conversation.
0:51.9	And Steve, my milkman has become the first milkman.
0:57.8	Threat to my marriage, because he's so handsome.
1:02.9	The first milkman to become a freeman of the city of London.
1:08.8	Right.
1:10.0	No way.
1:11.3	Yes.
1:12.4	Incredible.
1:13.4	So how has this happened?
1:14.8	You should explain what that means, I think, possibly, for overseas listeners.
1:18.4	Well, I've googled it.
1:20.1	I've googled it.
1:20.5	And when I say, explain that for overseas listeners, I really mean, can you explain that for me?
1:26.1	What do you know about being a freeman of the city? I know that your milkman is one. And that's about it. There's one thing I know that famously you get to do if you're a freeman of the city of London. Do you get a big key? Is it different? It's not that. You get to... Don't you get to drive pigs and stuff over London Bridge and Tower Bridge and that kind of thing?
1:47.9	You're allowed to drive sheep.
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