Elodie Harper

They stole a bunch of stuff, rampaged around, insulting and stealing from other members of the family.

It was a very repressive, violent response.

This was what led Boudicca to the revolt.

It was

what happened to her children, basically.

And she took the two daughters with her on her kind of famous mustering trip round the east of England to try and encourage people to join the rebellion.

And this is all we know about the daughters.

After that, they disappear from the historical record.

Whether they fought in the rebellion, whether they survived it, how old they were, none of that, we know, as I say, not even their names.

Definitely.

And this is why Boudicca's rebellion was so impactful because she had a real chance actually to drive the Romans from Britain.

Their hold on the territory was quite tenuous compared to later centuries.

They'd only been kind of dominant there for the past 20 years, as you say.

And one of the reasons why her rebellion was initially successful is that

the legate of Britannia, Paulinus, was off fighting rebels and Druids in the West.

So the power was spread quite thinly.

The military might was spread quite thinly over the British Isles at this point, and their control was far from certain.

And in fact, I realized that I rushed ahead to the family story with your last answer.

But one of the key things that we know about the culture in Britain at that time

was the power of the Druids.