S8 Ep581: 6. Queens of Britain: Cooperation and Resistance (11) Southon compares two female leaders in Roman Britain: Cartimandua and Boudica. Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, chose to collaborate with Rome, maintaining power for decades by bringing Roman luxur
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
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Southon compares two female leaders in Roman Britain: Cartimandua and Boudica. Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, chose to collaborate with Rome, maintaining power for decades by bringing Roman luxuries like wine and spices to her people. Conversely, Boudicaled a violent but short-lived rebellionagainst Roman tyranny. While the historian Tacitus portrayed Boudica as a stoic figure of honor who died by her own hand, modern British schools often view her as a symbol of national resistanceto continental rule and Britishexceptionalism. (12)
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| 0:34.1 | Emma Soutland's here. Her new book is A Rome of One's Own, the Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire. |
| 0:39.0 | We've spent time with Julia getting even with Augustus, but now the empire in the first AD is the product of Augustus's strong-mindedness. |
| 0:46.7 | I'll be fair-minded here. |
| 0:48.7 | And he's succeeded by Tiberius and Claudius, and we all know Caligula, and then Nero, and then Nero commits suicide in a strange fashion. |
| 0:59.2 | And it passes on to the Flavians. |
| 1:03.0 | And what we're looking at here is that first century, not in Rome, not even on the continent, but in Britain. |
| 1:10.6 | Roman Britain was about as far as you could get from the center, and yet there was success. |
| 1:16.7 | Claudius conquers it. |
| 1:17.8 | There are cities built up. |
| 1:19.0 | Lundinium is the one we know is London, Colchester and others. |
| 1:23.7 | But there are Roman tribes that the English students I've met are very proud of, |
| 1:29.7 | and there are two in particular. |
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