Ancient History Fangirl's Boudicca 1: the Seeds of Rebellion

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Liv's off to the UK and realized she's never covered Boudicca! Presenting episode 1 of Ancient History Fangirl's 2021 series on Britain's warrior queen. The story of Boudicca’s revolt is as epic as you can get. It’s got murder and pillage, Romans behaving badly, cities on fire, and a layer of destruction that was scorched into the earth. But it's also the story of a people on a precipice of great change.

Who was Boudicca? Who was this iron-age warrior queen who stood up to the Romans—and whose name was so revered and feared that stories of her are still being spun almost 2,000 years later? In this episode, we’re going to find out. Here's a Spotify playlist featuring all of AHFG's episodes on Boudicca and Roman Britain.

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CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

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0:00.0	Acast recommends.
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0:15.3	One, two, three, four!
0:16.8	I've been called Mad and Bad, Sad and Bad.
0:19.9	I've been called Mad and bad my whole life.
0:22.6	I've also had some real moments of sad,
0:24.6	so I decided to make a podcast.
0:27.0	This series, I'll be speaking to my favourite actors, comedians, musicians and thinkers
0:31.7	to find out what makes them mad, sad and bad, out now.
0:37.0	This is like free therapy for you, wouldn't it?
0:44.4	ACAS is the home of podcasting, including such shows as...
0:48.2	The logbooks, the high-performance podcast, and the one you're listening to right now. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby, except really it's not, it's an episode of ancient history fan girl, but I am the other host, live, here to explain what's happening.
1:33.6	Now, you all know I love to share episodes of ancient history fan girl because it's interesting.
1:38.0	And also, Jen and Jenny are my really good friends, and they do great work.
1:41.2	And I would like to shove their work into your faces because that's
1:46.2	just the type of friend that I am. But, but today's episode is a little specific. I am traveling
1:53.3	to the UK right now. I'm going to London for the first time, which is pretty fun. I'm doing a bunch of
1:58.9	events and things there as well as just honestly visiting a bunch of
2:04.2	museums that hold all of the stolen artifacts that I have never seen in Greece.
2:10.2	Let's not be subtle about it.
2:12.3	And because of that, obviously, also, you know, I'm dealing with this whole collective founding,
2:18.1	which if you can believe it, along with writing a children's book of the Odyssey, it's just taking
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