Hi everyone, welcome to Dance Those History. It's that time of the week where we go to our

sibling podcast, The Ancient See What Jules they've come up with in the last week or two.

And the answer is plenty, plenty. It's going great guns. It's going to overtake me one

of these days. The kids are doing well. Tristan Hughes, legend of the history at Stable has

got his Ancient's podcast. You can go and download, subscribe, stream, do whatever you

want to do, wherever you get your pods. And this week, the episode I want to share with

you is when he talks to Caitlin Gillespie about Boudica, the warrior queen of Roman Britain.

You've all heard of Boudica. 60 AD, she wrecked shop. In response to the Romans,

assaulting her and her daughters following the death of her husband who was a client king of Rome.

She led an army, destroyed a legion, captured the Roman capital, destroyed landans and

all theons and fought a final climactic battle against the Roman army somewhere in the Midlands.

One day we'll find out. She has become a sort of folkloric hero here in Britain.

And she was used in the classical world around the empire as a way of holding up a mirror to Roman

excess and untrammeled ambition. Enjoy this podcast. It's a fantastic episode. Thank you very

much, Caitlin Gillespie for coming on. If you want to listen to other podcasts, ones that I do,

Tristan, that was anyone else does. We've got a few more launching soon. It's going to be exciting.

Please get a history hit.tv, digital history channel. We've got hundreds of hours documentaries on

there. I think this week the number one documentary is my kayaking around the Henrician

Forts of southern England. Henry VIII built a series of mighty artillery batteries basically

on the south coast of England predominantly to guard against invasion from France and the

Holy Roman Empire. And on a beautiful morning the other day, I took a kayak and paddled

around some of them. I say, I can't believe this is actually my job. It would not be my job if

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