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

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

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Summary

Margaret continues talking 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.
0:06.1	CoolZone Media.
0:09.3	Hello, and welcome to cool people who burned down London.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and with me this week is a person who probably hasn't burned down London.
0:19.1	But I haven't either, so who am I to talk shit?
0:22.3	It's Io. Hi, Iyo. It's me, and I refuse to say anything on this public forum, but it's me,
0:29.3	Iyo, and hi, I'm Iyo. See, this only works when there's crimes that have actually happened.
0:34.9	They can be like, I don't know anything about that. Crimes that have happened, quote unquote?
0:41.0	No, I can't imagine.
0:42.2	I haven't the foggiest.
0:45.0	The other person I don't have the foggiest idea of how to introduce is Sophie.
0:51.3	The person who burned down Brighton.
0:53.3	Yeah.
0:54.0	Sophie, did you burn down Brighton?
0:55.2	Wait, don't answer that.
0:56.6	I'm not answering that question.
0:58.2	How dare you accuse me of such a thing?
1:01.5	The problem is that it's like a lot of people live in these places are very nice.
1:05.8	Anyway, whatever.
1:07.9	Crass has a whole lot of songs about exactly this idea
1:11.5	Yeah
1:12.7	I would never burn down the Santa Cruz of England
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