Elodie Harper

their own constraints as to who they want to offend, who they want to make look bad.

I would say, however, in the case of Tacitus, I mean, he doesn't hold back making Nero look like a fiend.

So I don't think he would have minded too much blaming it on Nero.

So maybe the procurator was particularly horrendous.

So probably quite sort of isolated forts and farmsteads and settlers who had ventured further into the countryside before they kind of overwhelmed Colchester.

I think there is some debate as to whether Budokan might have sacked even more towns like Chelmsford.

But yes, I mean, the traditional route that we believe she took was, you know, after mustering everyone, rampaging down towards Colchester, destroying Colchester, heading to London, destroying London, St.

Albans, possibly not completely destroying St.

Albans.

Oh, and I managed to miss out her very famous destruction of pretty much the entirety of the Ninth Legion between destroying Colchester and London.

Widespread destruction.

And then Paulinus defeated her after St.

Albans.

There's a lot of debate about where that final battle was.

Again, I went with Duncan's argument in Echolands that that's probably a lot closer to St.

Albans than was traditionally thought, just also because why was Boudicca rampaging as far north as Peterborough at this point?

It just doesn't seem as likely.

So regardless, it's a very intense battle.

period of destruction in a fairly concentrated area.

I think of all the sackings, it's London and Colchester that generate the most fascination, I would say.