Part One: Boudica: The Warrior Queen Who Burned Roman London to the Ground

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

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Summary

Margaret talks with Io about the Iceni revolt of 61 AD that almost drove Rome out of Britain.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4434717

https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A31804/attachment/ATT-0/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120612044230/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba83/feat3.shtml

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D32

https://historyandarchaeologyonline.com/the-evidence-for-the-historical-boudica%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/

https://vridar.org/2018/05/07/doing-history-how-do-we-know-queen-boadicea-boudicca-existed/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25471937

http://simoneparrish.com/2016/07/how-i-woad-using-woad-for-body-painting/

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:06.2	CoolZone Media.
0:09.0	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:11.5	You're twice a week.
0:13.2	I'm remembering to say twice a week, because it happens twice a week this podcast.
0:17.0	You're twice a week reminder that when bad things happen, there's people willing to burn entire cities to the ground in response.
0:24.8	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy.
0:27.2	And this week, my guest is Io.
0:31.1	Hi, Iyo.
0:32.0	What's up?
0:32.7	It's me, the two-timers club.
0:35.0	Let's go.
0:37.4	Iyo was actually the first ever guest on this podcast, not the... Two Timers Club. Let's go.
0:40.9	I.O. was actually the first ever guest on this podcast.
0:45.2	Not the guest on episode one, but the first person I ever recorded this podcast.
0:46.5	Oh, fuck, I was.
0:48.7	You were scared shitless magpie.
0:49.3	It was great.
0:50.2	Yeah, no, absolutely.
0:51.4	That was cool as a cucumber. If you want to go back in here, it was the episode about the Russian Nihilists.
0:55.2	The script was like two or three times longer than it needed to be.
1:00.0	Yeah, exactly.
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