That "Goliaeth" part does sound awfully like the Biblical Goliath. Hard to believe it could be a coincidence. But is there any connection between the Celtic and Canaanite peoples? Anyway, three cheers for bodacious Boudicca! (Any connection between that adjective and the name? Probably not, but it fits.)
Check the "King's and Generals" channel video about this if you want to know more. Their channel is absolutely amazing in covering historical events as well.
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Dee Spence I suspect the Romans would have regrouped and engaged with Boudicca again. Otherwise, life in the U.K. (and their former territories across the world) would be immeasurably impacted - from government to gender roles.
It would have set Briton back a couple of hundred years... Roman occupation turned out to be a very good thing for Briton .. Besides there was never a chance to defeat the romans...
I did a paper on her for my pre-britian class and finding information on her was nothing short of a scavenger hunt. But it was worth it because she is such an interesting figure.
Given what we know about the tendency of Roman "historians" to embellish their accounts of events, it is worth noting that the size of Boudica's army may have been exaggerated as well to make the skill and technological advantages of the Roman legions seem all the more impressive to the Roman people. So while it is entirely likely that the Celt army outnumbered the Roman army due to the fact they were fighting on their homeland rather than an expeditionary force, they may not have been 10 times as numerous.
One of the Boudicca myths from when I was a child; is that she was buried at what later became one of the mainline platforms of Kings Cross Railway Station
KendrickMan Search for videos by Alan Wilson historian...a Welsh man who's research is incredible! And...it'll blow your mind how much ancient British history the 'establishment' have intentionally destroyed (to hide their usurper status lol!). Seriously...go watch him...the tales of us being barbarians in animal skins is complete horseshit...even in ancient Roman texts it talks of our world renowned halls of learning! Lol! Not bad for barbarians living in mud eh? 🙂👍🏻
KendrickMan P.S. Did you know that Britain was almost totally destroyed in 562 BC? Just another crucial nugget of history they squashed all knowledge of.
KendrickMan sorry...I meant to say destroyed by a doomsday style comet (hence the heat damage they can't explain on high up ancient Scottish castles). 🙂👍🏻
@@trappedinroom1014 Not something I've ever looked into, but I'll keep that possibility in mind. I definitely agree with you about a lot of history being distorted for the sake of making our current/last leaders look like heroes, whether they are or not. Well, in the case of roman/greek history, people try to pin democracy on them falsely. In egypt, you've got one guy in charge of everything antiquities who's been countless times proven to be wrong, and hiding evidence to fit narratives. I think once he dies (seems to have lifelong tenureship), the lack of our knowledge in some ways is going to suprise a lot of people. And the knowledge that's known, but not disseminated will also shock people. I kind of loath the romans in history, so I'm always curious what all the civilizations they wiped out could have brought to the world if they had written language.
I only accidentally stumbled across the "Biographics" a short time ago and wound up binge watching. Boudicca has been one of my favorite historical figures for many years since I, again, accidentally discovered her story. I read and watch every thing I come across concerning her life. It saddens me when I read the comments such as those from JP and ravagedbywolves in the comments below that they never heard of her. Unfortunately, it is true that history is written by the winners of wars, not the loosers. I think Mr. Whistler has done a magnificent job of condensing her story into an 18 minuet video. My only negative comment would be the semi-glossing over of the rape of her daughters. Sure, her people had been subjugated to many atrocities and she had been beaten as only the Romans could beat another human being, but I have the feeling that it was the rape of her young daughters that set her off. The Celts felt very strong bonds with family and heaven help any outsider who hurt any of them. It's true that the vengeance she wrought upon the Romans was a "bit" extreme but they did learn that you just don't piss off a Celtic mother.
A much more interesting show plot in my opinion is the story of Queen Mebh(Maeve) of Connacht. Lived during the ulster cycle, sworn enemy of King Conchobar Mac Nessa. CúChúllainn was his top general, one of the most famous Irish warriors. Story has it that Queen Mebh was even buried standing and facing north, so even in death she would face the enemy.
Love her as an example of how history is grey, never black and white. GOT SPOILERS: She went from freedom fighter to war criminal so fast it’d make daenerys blush. She was a victim of brutal violence, yet given the same power, she answered violence with even more, senseless violence (how much the romans invented aside, the torture and slaughter of countless civilians is quite horrific) Ultimately, her bravery was met with equal bravery and as well as an example of morally grey history, she showed perfectly why rome was the undisputed power at the time. The legions were not a group of soliders. They were a disciplined, well trained and well oiled killing machine. They were ruthless, methodical and absolutely deadly, and it goes to show why not even the Germans dared to face them in open battle, as the romans excelled so much at this, that they managed to beat boudicas army while being so horribly outnumbered. Considering this was mostly hand to hand combat, the feat the romans accomplished is insane. And they did not have some phyrric victory, it was pretty much a slaughter (albeit likely not quite to the degree the romans said, propaganda being a thing and all)
To be fair, torture and slaughter of enemy civilians wasn't abnormal at the time for many civilizations. "War criminal" is kind of a ridiculous term to even use when talking about thousands of years ago. Romans were actually (sort of) abnormal in the sense that they would (usually) first try to integrate their subjects into Roman ways. They didn't care about religion or personal lives unless it caused problems for their rule. They only cared that you paid due taxes. Of course, when any of this wasn't lined up, sure they'd line you up and butcher you - not trying to make out the Romans as cuddly and nice or anything, they just seemed to have more of a priority of spreading Roman ways, as opposed to defeating and destroying their enemies. Of course, like is mentioned in this video, people in positions of power often times act like dicks, just because they can, as some Romans did to "Boudicca's" daughters and other Britons (whether or not she was real, it is pretty solid that it was mistreatment that caused the uprising). But history shows that this wasn't really the norm for a conquering Roman force, as they were the most disciplined army in history, and usually followed (more or less) a strict protocol of occupation that was noninvasive enough that many occupied populations would accept it.
Nah Boudicca doesn't deserve to be honored and neither to be called "amazing" (and i'm not even saying this because i'm a roman fan as you can see by my prof pic, many other enemies of rome deserve respect for their genius and will to fight like vercingetorix, caratacus, hannibal, arminius, viriatus, etc) but boudicca was just commanding an angry mob, she slaughtered civillians in a ruthless way even for the age's standarts and when she finally met a real army (which was 7x smaller than hers) she got utterly defeated, boudicca is one of the most overrated historical figures of all time
@@14beans Opinions must be based on facts otherwise they are just stubborn thinking, tell me, why should boudica be honoured? Because she rose in rebellion? Many people rose in rebellion against the romans like the ones I said and they were far more successful than her, no one deserves a medal for participating, just as boudica doesn't deserve to be honoured for such disastrous uprising
I am a proud man full of Celtic blood and know my people did this through the great ancient wisdom of what the Romans called the Druids in 400-500 BCE long before those shite filled fockers of Rome tried and failed to Conquer the Celts, and while on that subject it should also be noted the Celtic peoples as well as the Norse were the ONLY 2 groups of Germanic tribes and people in all history to not be totally conquered by them, so if you have Celtic blood in you or Norse stand tall and know they did not take our ancestors yet conquered many nations and kingdoms of vast wealth and power enslaving them and taking from those places any and all they wished leaving their ancestors story to a few pages in history by those whom so conquered. But we got our revenge for them taking all of mainland Europe, didn't we lol thank you oh great Norse, and it was the celtic women who made the last hold of Norse culture to be held as the greatest literary society in ALL history, that is what Iceland is known for history wise, modern history wise they have added most mined crypto currency to that list for the pages of history. Cheers. Lobhadh i náire tú itheann cac rómhánach gan chnámh droma. Or for you english only speaking people.. I said Rot in Shame you who eat Roman balls with no backbones. making the translation cheerful to not get flagged :)
@@Byilmaz218 Who were your ancestors? I am certain a many cultures scared them very greatly, are your ancestors the Goths? If so, then I say thank you grandson or daughter of those who burnt them to ashes.
@@surfk9836 the Roads in Ireland are well engineered. We could go global and speak of the Maya and their 60 mile long PERFECT straight roads to which Rome nor the Celts did at least not to any evidence thus found. But again going back to the Celts. Who were in Charge of them?? Well any well learned Celtic blooded woman or man knows the ancient tradition and those 60 mile roads of the Maya the ancestors of those bearded Sages who spent a life time memorizing all branches of wisdom above and below... and who come from pre history. The saying among the ancient order is but one " Only one of us is needed to re light the lamp of wisdom to guide humanity out of the darkness to which has taken our world 4 times thus far...we the Sages of silence who hide the secrets in the shadows wishing and taking no credit for being a savior of anyone but our people which is this garden we all are born into half blind....until destiny grasps us up and shows us a duty that the world has forgotten and a duty that must come to pass that many of us will and must help again when the dragons from sky and Bel fly forth to burn and suffocate the lands of all life..be them of the world of men or of nature...it always returns at the 4 points of the cross of Bel we look up and wait..... ever ready yet silent until that day comes as to who we are" those wise people were not some young latter brozen age group.. they have been here longer than any can know but that story no man or woman will believe unless they are one of the few whos shoulders are weighted down with the burden of a story to hard for this world to accept.....
The Boudica series from author Manda Scott is one of the best I have ever read. If you haven't read them yet, I would definitely recommend them. Thank you for this video Simon, I love it.
As a Colchester native we learned as much as we could in school and have always found her fascinating, thanks for bringing her accomplishments to the masses. Keep up the great work!
@@jurtra9090 No, emperor. Empress/queen are the king/emperor's consort. When a female is king, she is called 'Queen regnant' which means 'Queen that's kinging'. The Empress she's talking about was also an 'empress regnant', and hence: emperor. In practice the difference is that a regular queen is succeeded when a male heir comes of age, and she's a placeholder. The Regnant queen maintains her position, because she owns it.
The Lindsay Holiday channel has a new Doc about her. Just type Wu Zetian. I'm sure you'll find it. She was something else. Killed her own son. You didn't mess with that lady.
@@algini12 that's pretty common in Chinese history. Or at least that's what my mother-in-law said when I was confused why she wasn't shocked about anything in A Song of Ice and Fire....
The prob with the history of a people who had no writing is that we only get written records from their enemies. Plus Victorian romanticism adding "Victorian values". And modern scholars telling us what the Celts thought as if that were proven fact, rather than what they THINK they thought, or MAY have thought. Everything has to be filtered through the prejudice of their contemporary enemies, or romantics or modern "what *should* have been"
@@franl155 where there is a will, there is a way. I would have to study old traditions and hear old folklore and stories. I'm sure the essence of Celtic lives on especially up north and on the isle of Ireland.
@@annatarlordofgifts2442 The current bull goose loonies of Rome are in the end game of destroying THEMSELVES with perversions and corruption. Soon they'll fade away. All's well that ends well!
And not to forget that she is currently recieving the wrong kind of recognition as well. She is recognised as a strong warrior even though she lost the only real battle that she had fought against a large army with an even larger force. But at the same time, she doesn't receive enough recognition for unifying the divided and often conflicting Celtic tribes under 1 banner.
@@ericthompson3982 And from what I recall, she had a significant numerical advantage over Romans (maybe not 10 to 1 but you get the point right). And before that battle, she had fought only against VASTLY outnumbered forces and weakly defended cities. But at the same time, she achieved such kind of numerical advantage in the first place because she managed to unite the divided and often conflicting Celtic tribes under one banner. Maybe it's time when we shall recognise her for her real achievements instead.
phoenixkhost Olga is definitely interesting. So is her husband Igor. As you can see, I’m a fan of Vikings and we’ll be seeing the Rus’ in Season 6. Oleg Of Novgorod, Prince Dir and Askold will play major parts in the story. We know it isn’t going to be historically accurate, but fun nonetheless.
He made a similar mistake on the Alexander constantly showing roman legions when he should have shown the Macedonian phalanx, makes me wonder how much he knows and how much he reads on cue.
Simon, Julius Agricola , Tacitus' father in law was present at the battle of Watling street. Hence there is a fair chance that Tacitus had a first hand report of the battle and speeches . Also we know that Tacitus is as fair as an ancient historian can be . He has been found to be correct with most of his historic records.
I remember a few years ago I met my girlfriend's (at the time) niece, she woud of been 7 at the time and my background picture was one of Boudicca. Straight away she knew who it was without me asking and we managed to have an hour or so long conversation about her and her legacy. Strange how a love for this woman can stretch across multiple generations!
@@OfficialFingazMC that's why emotional people shouldn't lead other people, she wasn't wrong to want vengeance, she was wrong because she acted out of emotion which led to tens of thousands of people to walk into their deaths and her daughters to go from sexually assaulted, to dead. The Romans were literally with their backs to the wall, so she had inunerous tactics she could use from starving out the Romans, to cotinuously pelt them from a distance and wait for them to break ranks. No sane man would have lost that battle, it was embarrassing for any man, luckily she wasn't a man and is revered for it instead.
@@J040PL7 I think it's because she stood up for herself more. Not just because she was a bird. I agree the last battle was fought completely tactically wrong, but to stand up for yourself against that kind of violence and oppression, you have to give them their due, male or female. Is that why you dislike her? Because she was a lass?
@@OfficialFingazMC I don't dislike her, it's that people praise her for her leadership, when it literally led to one of the most ineptly fought battles of all time. Worst thing is, no one talks about the guy who won the battle being outnumbered 20 to 1 🤣
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Thank you, for telling yet another great section of history that we may not have known about. No matter how much or how little history you have been exposed to, you almost never get a felling that these where real people. Somehow we lose the real side of history and this was a great story told by a great story teller, I felt bad for her and her people.
I had the same experience, but backwards. I found his channels and thought, "Isn't that the guy who used to be on TopTenz?" I'm glad he's managed to succeed with all of his own channels.
@@LadyWhinesalot Warrior Women, it's a series of documentaries that have an episode dedicated to different women. Boudicca is one of them, as is Joan of Arc, and a few others. The narrator is Lucy Lawless.
@@StoriesbyIrish “Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. Is, what you mentioned, a diffy series?
@@LadyWhinesalot Much different. Each episode has a different person that Lucy Lawless narrates about their life, etc. I'm not surprised that it shares the same name of another documentary. Sorry for the confusion ♥️
Thank you for the simple, but eloquent differentiation of Celts. Our cultures are so intertwined, it can be difficult to explain how we are alike, and where we depart. ☘️
Only been watching this channel for a few days now and watched maybe 20 episodes or so but I can't get enough of the way Simon says "empire" and I can't believe I've not seen anyone else say the this because he says it nearly every episode a few times lol
There's already a movie, starring Alex Kingston. It shows how she became the warrior queen, even how she faced up to the enemy tribes. She shamed them into joining her.
@@Tia-Marie Not really. Every nation that was once a Roman province continued to fight for the right to be the center of Roman revival for centuries to come
@@Tia-Marie revolt. The rise of the Roman city state, to the Roman Kingdom and then Republic, finally to the Empire. . And then the Byzantine Empire. . It is one of the longest lasting powers in all of human history. With an influence and impact that is far reaching. Without Rome there would be no British Empire.
As someone with a celtic heritage (cornish) and hearing many stories growing up about boudicca, loved this episode! Glad she's getting more recognition. Kernow Bys Vyken
LOL. I laugh hysterically when I hear that comment! Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria in Britain, Olga, Empress Elizabeth and Catherine the Great in Russia and Queen Margrethe I of Denmark ALL had massive wars under their rule (Elizabeth I in particular routinely picked fights with the Spanish). Many female monarchs seemed to love war almost as much as the men!
@@thunderbird1921 To be fair there were sociopolitical reasons for why female monarchs waged wars. You can research the topic, it's actually quite interesting.
@@Lilliathi Yes but these were reasons that specifically affected female monarchs and made war expedient or necessary in a way it was not for male monarchs *because* of their gender. Bit of a difference.
@@Contrarian-v7p Then that's what you should have said. Regardless, being perceived as potentially weak is a problem that many male monarchs faced as well, I wouldn't call it uniquely female. A fun theory, but without any real evidence. Most likely convenient feminist propaganda to shoot down criticism of the idea that men are responsible for humans being war-like.
I hope your stories are around when my kid is born, we used to read stories like these as a child and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Excellent to listen to as well. keep it up!
Boudicca is the best image of a tragic hero fighting for a righteous but lost cause history ever gave us. Even Spartacus and Vercingetorix pale in comparison.
Well, Vercingetorix was an excellent tacticia who nearky beat one of the best tactical minds Rome produced. Boudicca committed a brutal genocide against men, women and children until she lost the only battle she ever fought despite having basically 8-1 numericcal advantage
@@obradinn7491 you fail to comprehend the circumstances. And I think you don't have an understanding of slaves in the Roman Empire. Slaves were involved in virtually all professions. Some were doctors, some were extremely well educated, some were warriors (served as bodyguards or fought as gladiators), some had other skills. Basically, most officers were somewhere in the west. There was no one to react to the rebellion. A legion usually had 200 scouts. Usually auxiliaries (natives) who knew the land), These were sent ahead. The 200 slaves were most likely chosen with these skills in mind and sent for this purpose. The garrison left in the city was determined before the rebellion. Pausinias left before the rebellion. The Primus Pilatus, with a full legion, was operating in cornwall before the rebellion. When Boudica appeared at Camulodunum, no body had any intelligence. Nobody had any idea she had ammased a force of 120K. By the time Pausinias returned from Anglesey, he had some idea. Hence why he didn't engage Boudica. He retreated far to the west, followed by a huge number of Roman refugees, while Boudica pursued. Eventually Pausinias decided to go down fighting. He had no expection of victory. He basically told his men, if we fight, we die with honor. If we run, we die tortured to death. Fear and panic set in early in the battle on Boudica's side. It was caused by the wagons Boudica circled around the battle field (to keep the Romans from escaping) Pausinias chose a location that provided a choke point. The vast majority of Boudica's army never engaged in any fighting. They were massed at the back. When the Romans pushed the front row back, they pushed the rest of the Celts against the wagons. That was when panic set in. And it spread like fire. Celts tried desperately to escape, but were trapped by the wagons. The Romans didn't slaughter 80 000 Celts fighting bravely. They slaughtered the vast majority of that number of Celts as they tried to flee in a panic. But couldn't really because of the wagons Boudica placed. (this 80 000 includes men, women and children) I'm surprised the number of dead isnt bigger. It means, 150K managed to escape the slaughter. Rome once fielded 86 000 men...against an enemy of 50 000 The Romans lost 86000 men that day. Their enemy lost 5000. The battle of Cannae. If Romans always grossly inflate numbers, how do you explain this? There's many cases like this. (Ancient historians report numbers they get from sources. The sources do inflate numbers, but there are usually multiple sources. Historians like Tacitus or Cassius will comment on how much salt to take with these numbers.)
In Caesars gaulic wars he says the cavalry used chain mail. and some infantry wore it almost like a mantle, but not many. Keep in mind chainmail is enormously heavy and in rough terrain like central gaul its not as maneuve
There was a number of generous claims that are most certainly not agreed upon by historians/archaeologists/anthropologists and seemed to have been created in a moment of historical patriotism by some not-so-unbiased British or Celtic historians. The chain mail one and the paved road ones are both NOT seen as backed by much solid evidence by most historians. They had some fairly advanced societal structure and linguistics, but it's a stretch to act like it was even remotely comparable to that of the Romans at the time.
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Your final comments about the Celts and Boudicca sounded so heart felt and full of reverence that I almost got a bit choked up. It seemed very real. I'm American and my first encounter with Boudicca was from the Xbox game Ryse: Son of Rome.
Always, always very informative and entertaining. You folks do a great service in keeping history alive and often clearing up any misconceptions we’ve might have had. Thank you to all the staff concerned and especially you Simon, super great narrator. You put your body and soul in your delivery. 👍👍
Two points of correction here on this video. The Celts lived in a far bigger area than just Britain. Britain was only colonised later in the Iron Age by the Celts and they took their own turn apart from the "mainland" Celts. They lived in a big part of Europe below the Rhine and Danube except for Southern Spain, Italy (except for the Po Valley) and Greece. The Galatians even moved to Turkey and were employed as mercenaries by the Ptolemeaic dynasty in Egypt. The Picts and Celts were 2 seperate groups of people who were not related.
This was an unnecessary ‘correction’. He said celts are a grouping term and named Gauls, Brittonic, Gaelic as some examples. The proto Indo Europeans did spread from the Caucasus and mixed and inter bread with the original hunter gatherer Europeans that represented several earlier migrations. The video covers a much later period though and is hardly a correction. Fair enough if you want to point out they were not the very first inhabitants but it’s not a correction. The Basque language is an isolate and they believe it is rooted in the original European hunter gatherer language. The subject is fascinating but again this was a 20 minute video on a Celtic Warrior Queen. Not pre Indo European expansion.
I’m just glad you said her name right. So many say it wrong really irritates me. They don’t give her enough credit and they don’t even get her name right. Loved it!
This is how algorithms work for me to find this video.I read the comments and saw a comment from someone I dont know , have never met, but have seen In some of the subscribed channels I watch on my football team, huh go figure as his interest in the same football club probably lead to how it came up in the up in next and recommended videos. I have a big interest in Boudicca or Boudicia ,as i am British and she has been on the 50p, all my life. Royal Britannia, but not just this . I used to live with a past member of the British movement Fred (RIP), who was a skinhead and back when I remember I used to hang with the skins with my older cousin in my youth but he more a Mod. Fred years later had turned into a hippy growing dreads later in life and become a historian on the Celts. I'm from London but grew up some in the town of Colchester with relatives, and my mum now lives on the river Colne in Rowhedge where the Romans first used to transport there goods once they had conquered the town. The Romans also conquered the area as if it wasn't for Noble land owners showing them how to do so. At first they tried but didn't succeed as the Celts held them down in marsh land unknown to where the Romans first made the attack crossings. But this was a serious problem as the celts knew how to fight in the marshy area. Could have been Maldon If i remember. They then went back to Rome gathered more troops including African slaves and proceeded back. Some had found their way around the marsh land and took some land owners hostage it was this that gave the Romans some advantage by tail, as the land owners thought the giants had landed. The average height of the Celt was 5ft .6 but the African warrior was 6ft.4. They made a deal with the roman centurions, that if they could keep there land they would tell the roman garrisons how to avoid the marshland and come into better waters of east Anglia, giving them better strategic offensive. This gave them the upper hand in strategic manoeuvring to them eventually conquering the Celts Icinic tribes and then enslaving queen Boadicea. They killed her for what was thought to be a surrender to make a deal to save the rest of her armies.
The Scottish are named after the Scotti, a tribe that migrated from Ireland a bit later than this. The Picts were indeed in what is now Scotland at the time. Most people will refer to the people who lived in Scotland (beyond hadrian's wall) as the Picts, while those south of the wall as the Britons (or Romano-Britons). Truth is that both words have the same etymology. Picti, Britanni, Pretanni, Prydan, Brythonic, Brettonic, Breton etc etc all come from the word meaning 'painted ones' . The modern word Great Britain can be traced back to meaning 'Big land of the painted people'
Once again, thank you so much for the adding perspective; together with a degree of your own tangible context to increase my understanding of Alex Kingston's 2003 film- BOUDICA WARRIOR QUEEN.
@Tyler Grant Yes, young girls need to look up to a strong woman, whoever that may be. Failures are a part of life, just like you would encourage young boys to look up to historic "brave" men. Snakes of patriarchy, smh.
I always feel that Boudicca was the beginning of the concept of 'Britannia', reinforced and tapped into by Elizabeth the 1st and then by Queen Victoria (plus Maggie Thatcher and our current lovely Queen!).
I'd like to suggest Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald for a future episode. A man with a fascinating life. Thanks for the work you do, it's greatly appreciated.
I'n Welsh 'Boudicca' is known as 'BUDDUG' short form the Welsh word 'BUDDUGOLIAETH' meaning 'TO BE VICTORIOUS'
Dylan Thomas how glorious 😍
Any connections to the Philistine, Goliath? ;)
That "Goliaeth" part does sound awfully like the Biblical Goliath. Hard to believe it could be a coincidence. But is there any connection between the Celtic and Canaanite peoples? Anyway, three cheers for bodacious Boudicca! (Any connection between that adjective and the name? Probably not, but it fits.)
All Welsh are now common law Irish, except when we play rugby
Well, that's ironic.
That was the most info I've ever heard of her. Thank you. This series is terrific.
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Check the "King's and Generals" channel video about this if you want to know more. Their channel is absolutely amazing in covering historical events as well.
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The Kings & Generals video of her is legit as well
If any ever get to London, there is a statue of Boudicea on her chariot. Corner of Westminster Bridge and the Embankment.
Been there, done that.
Beautiful.
I'm going to go one day, and I'll see Corfe castle when I'm in England too.
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There are plenty of castles for you to enjoy.
@@kartel8844 I can't wait!
My next travel selfie goal! I’m not even sure how much I’m joking.) 😝
I wonder how different English history would have been if Boudicca had defeated the romans!
Dee Spence I suspect the Romans would have regrouped and engaged with Boudicca again. Otherwise, life in the U.K. (and their former territories across the world) would be immeasurably impacted - from government to gender roles.
M i think you are correct! No one at that time would have survived the Roman war machine!
Would have likely been worse, considering how far the Romans built up the infrastructure, technological etc aspects of Roman Britain.
It would have set Briton back a couple of hundred years... Roman occupation turned out to be a very good thing for Briton ..
Besides there was never a chance to defeat the romans...
I wonder if England would still have Celtic societies then. :\
I did a paper on her for my pre-britian class and finding information on her was nothing short of a scavenger hunt. But it was worth it because she is such an interesting figure.
Scavenger?? You just said first Britain queen is scavenge?
@@lia4667 I was on a scavenger hunt for the information.....
@@Elizabeth-xp2sf nice
@@Elizabeth-xp2sf lol how did they get that out of what you said? 😂
@@rhysjones1108 Because that's how pathetic the modern world is.
I would like to see the folks who were behind the Spartacus series do one for her. Could be epic as well.
It definitely has potential, however, they will probably just add social justice themes to it
I think is is "Britania" you are looking for.
dkhawkee I will love it.
There is one it's called Britannia new season coming soon
@@shrek13241 thanks. Will try and find it if I can.
I just love how Simon says..Empire.. "Emp-paaa" Sounds majestically sinister.
I really enjoyed this one! I've heard of Boudicca in the past and am glad that she has her moment in the spotlight on your channel 🙂
Given what we know about the tendency of Roman "historians" to embellish their accounts of events, it is worth noting that the size of Boudica's army may have been exaggerated as well to make the skill and technological advantages of the Roman legions seem all the more impressive to the Roman people. So while it is entirely likely that the Celt army outnumbered the Roman army due to the fact they were fighting on their homeland rather than an expeditionary force, they may not have been 10 times as numerous.
Probably they were outnumbered 2 or 3 to 1
I've always taken with a huge grain of salt the six figure numbers that are often given for the sizes of ancient armies.
British "historians" are know to do the same.
Rome was defeated by Hannibal in history of Rome they out numbered Hannibal army
@@shadowrain3513
Rome was not defeated by Hannibal. He won some battles as did others but at the end Carthage was defeated.
One of the Boudicca myths from when I was a child; is that she was buried at what later became one of the mainline platforms of Kings Cross Railway Station
11/10. More celtic/pre-roman biographies would be excellent. Possibly pre-columbian native americans in the next ones?
KendrickMan Search for videos by Alan Wilson historian...a Welsh man who's research is incredible!
And...it'll blow your mind how much ancient British history the 'establishment' have intentionally destroyed (to hide their usurper status lol!).
Seriously...go watch him...the tales of us being barbarians in animal skins is complete horseshit...even in ancient Roman texts it talks of our world renowned halls of learning! Lol! Not bad for barbarians living in mud eh?
🙂👍🏻
KendrickMan
P.S. Did you know that Britain was almost totally destroyed in 562 BC? Just another crucial nugget of history they squashed all knowledge of.
KendrickMan sorry...I meant to say destroyed by a doomsday style comet (hence the heat damage they can't explain on high up ancient Scottish castles). 🙂👍🏻
@@trappedinroom1014 Mate, are you serious. I've never heard anything about that.. AT ALL!
@@trappedinroom1014 Not something I've ever looked into, but I'll keep that possibility in mind. I definitely agree with you about a lot of history being distorted for the sake of making our current/last leaders look like heroes, whether they are or not. Well, in the case of roman/greek history, people try to pin democracy on them falsely.
In egypt, you've got one guy in charge of everything antiquities who's been countless times proven to be wrong, and hiding evidence to fit narratives. I think once he dies (seems to have lifelong tenureship), the lack of our knowledge in some ways is going to suprise a lot of people. And the knowledge that's known, but not disseminated will also shock people.
I kind of loath the romans in history, so I'm always curious what all the civilizations they wiped out could have brought to the world if they had written language.
"invents chain mail" "fights naked"
Tbf it wasn't exactly common.
I only accidentally stumbled across the "Biographics" a short time ago and wound up binge watching. Boudicca has been one of my favorite historical figures for many years since I, again, accidentally discovered her story. I read and watch every thing I come across concerning her life. It saddens me when I read the comments such as those from JP and ravagedbywolves in the comments below that they never heard of her. Unfortunately, it is true that history is written by the winners of wars, not the loosers. I think Mr. Whistler has done a magnificent job of condensing her story into an 18 minuet video. My only negative comment would be the semi-glossing over of the rape of her daughters. Sure, her people had been subjugated to many atrocities and she had been beaten as only the Romans could beat another human being, but I have the feeling that it was the rape of her young daughters that set her off. The Celts felt very strong bonds with family and heaven help any outsider who hurt any of them. It's true that the vengeance she wrought upon the Romans was a "bit" extreme but they did learn that you just don't piss off a Celtic mother.
I subscribed to you because I understand this, rather than Wikipedia, whenever I have to write an essay, I watch your videos!
A much more interesting show plot in my opinion is the story of Queen Mebh(Maeve) of Connacht.
Lived during the ulster cycle, sworn enemy of King Conchobar Mac Nessa. CúChúllainn was his top general, one of the most famous Irish warriors.
Story has it that Queen Mebh was even buried standing and facing north, so even in death she would face the enemy.
Oh I'd love this I'm Irish in the east of Ireland !
How could you even compare the two as 1 being more interesting than the other
Oh because your irish and a self appointed Celt
@@jasonsweet1868 are you replying to me ?🤔🙄
@@shonalouiseameliamurphy3937 read the line of comments and work it out
Could just say "another interesting story is.." rather than make it a competition.
Love her as an example of how history is grey, never black and white. GOT SPOILERS:
She went from freedom fighter to war criminal so fast it’d make daenerys blush. She was a victim of brutal violence, yet given the same power, she answered violence with even more, senseless violence (how much the romans invented aside, the torture and slaughter of countless civilians is quite horrific)
Ultimately, her bravery was met with equal bravery and as well as an example of morally grey history, she showed perfectly why rome was the undisputed power at the time. The legions were not a group of soliders. They were a disciplined, well trained and well oiled killing machine. They were ruthless, methodical and absolutely deadly, and it goes to show why not even the Germans dared to face them in open battle, as the romans excelled so much at this, that they managed to beat boudicas army while being so horribly outnumbered. Considering this was mostly hand to hand combat, the feat the romans accomplished is insane. And they did not have some phyrric victory, it was pretty much a slaughter (albeit likely not quite to the degree the romans said, propaganda being a thing and all)
To be fair, torture and slaughter of enemy civilians wasn't abnormal at the time for many civilizations. "War criminal" is kind of a ridiculous term to even use when talking about thousands of years ago. Romans were actually (sort of) abnormal in the sense that they would (usually) first try to integrate their subjects into Roman ways. They didn't care about religion or personal lives unless it caused problems for their rule. They only cared that you paid due taxes. Of course, when any of this wasn't lined up, sure they'd line you up and butcher you - not trying to make out the Romans as cuddly and nice or anything, they just seemed to have more of a priority of spreading Roman ways, as opposed to defeating and destroying their enemies. Of course, like is mentioned in this video, people in positions of power often times act like dicks, just because they can, as some Romans did to "Boudicca's" daughters and other Britons (whether or not she was real, it is pretty solid that it was mistreatment that caused the uprising). But history shows that this wasn't really the norm for a conquering Roman force, as they were the most disciplined army in history, and usually followed (more or less) a strict protocol of occupation that was noninvasive enough that many occupied populations would accept it.
Kevin I think the Romans were pragmatists: new subjects (and their taxes) can benefit the Empire. Corpses, not so much.
G G All true, as I stated, but the Settlers she slaughtered and tortured brutally didn‘t do this.
G G “got her daughters raped” Are you fucking serious? Dude, that’s grotesquely stupid.
Yup Very ridiculous term for the time. Literally anyone with any sort of power was a war criminal back then. Violence was the answer to all.
Thank you! We love these videos. Thank you for honoring Boudicca.
An amazing woman!
@@OfficialFingazMC why
Nah Boudicca doesn't deserve to be honored and neither to be called "amazing" (and i'm not even saying this because i'm a roman fan as you can see by my prof pic, many other enemies of rome deserve respect for their genius and will to fight like vercingetorix, caratacus, hannibal, arminius, viriatus, etc) but boudicca was just commanding an angry mob, she slaughtered civillians in a ruthless way even for the age's standarts and when she finally met a real army (which was 7x smaller than hers) she got utterly defeated, boudicca is one of the most overrated historical figures of all time
@@b3ygghsas Everyone has their own opinions :)
@@14beans Opinions must be based on facts otherwise they are just stubborn thinking, tell me, why should boudica be honoured? Because she rose in rebellion? Many people rose in rebellion against the romans like the ones I said and they were far more successful than her, no one deserves a medal for participating, just as boudica doesn't deserve to be honoured for such disastrous uprising
Loved this wish you would do more on the Celts.
Romans: “We invented paved roads.”
Celts: “Nuh-uh!”
Romans: “In a couple thousand years nobody will believe you.”
I am a proud man full of Celtic blood and know my people did this through the great ancient wisdom of what the Romans called the Druids in 400-500 BCE long before those shite filled fockers of Rome tried and failed to Conquer the Celts, and while on that subject it should also be noted the Celtic peoples as well as the Norse were the ONLY 2 groups of Germanic tribes and people in all history to not be totally conquered by them, so if you have Celtic blood in you or Norse stand tall and know they did not take our ancestors yet conquered many nations and kingdoms of vast wealth and power enslaving them and taking from those places any and all they wished leaving their ancestors story to a few pages in history by those whom so conquered. But we got our revenge for them taking all of mainland Europe, didn't we lol thank you oh great Norse, and it was the celtic women who made the last hold of Norse culture to be held as the greatest literary society in ALL history, that is what Iceland is known for history wise, modern history wise they have added most mined crypto currency to that list for the pages of history. Cheers. Lobhadh i náire tú itheann cac rómhánach gan chnámh droma. Or for you english only speaking people.. I said Rot in Shame you who eat Roman balls with no backbones. making the translation cheerful to not get flagged :)
@@heliosgnosis2744 my ancestors scared Rome🤣
@@Byilmaz218 Who were your ancestors? I am certain a many cultures scared them very greatly, are your ancestors the Goths? If so, then I say thank you grandson or daughter of those who burnt them to ashes.
Big difference between "paved roads" and well engineered roads. Something the Romans built well engineered roads for centuries before this time.
@@surfk9836 the Roads in Ireland are well engineered. We could go global and speak of the Maya and their 60 mile long PERFECT straight roads to which Rome nor the Celts did at least not to any evidence thus found. But again going back to the Celts. Who were in Charge of them?? Well any well learned Celtic blooded woman or man knows the ancient tradition and those 60 mile roads of the Maya the ancestors of those bearded Sages who spent a life time memorizing all branches of wisdom above and below... and who come from pre history. The saying among the ancient order is but one " Only one of us is needed to re light the lamp of wisdom to guide humanity out of the darkness to which has taken our world 4 times thus far...we the Sages of silence who hide the secrets in the shadows wishing and taking no credit for being a savior of anyone but our people which is this garden we all are born into half blind....until destiny grasps us up and shows us a duty that the world has forgotten and a duty that must come to pass that many of us will and must help again when the dragons from sky and Bel fly forth to burn and suffocate the lands of all life..be them of the world of men or of nature...it always returns at the 4 points of the cross of Bel we look up and wait..... ever ready yet silent until that day comes as to who we are" those wise people were not some young latter brozen age group.. they have been here longer than any can know but that story no man or woman will believe unless they are one of the few whos shoulders are weighted down with the burden of a story to hard for this world to accept.....
The Boudica series from author Manda Scott is one of the best I have ever read. If you haven't read them yet, I would definitely recommend them.
Thank you for this video Simon, I love it.
As a Colchester native we learned as much as we could in school and have always found her fascinating, thanks for bringing her accomplishments to the masses. Keep up the great work!
Talking of female leaders, could you do one about Wu Zetian, the only female emperor to have ruled China? Really love your videos! Love history!
You mean Empress
@@jurtra9090 No, emperor. Empress/queen are the king/emperor's consort. When a female is king, she is called 'Queen regnant' which means 'Queen that's kinging'. The Empress she's talking about was also an 'empress regnant', and hence: emperor.
In practice the difference is that a regular queen is succeeded when a male heir comes of age, and she's a placeholder. The Regnant queen maintains her position, because she owns it.
The Lindsay Holiday channel has a new Doc about her. Just type Wu Zetian. I'm sure you'll find it. She was something else. Killed her own son. You didn't mess with that lady.
@Sterling Archer That's what history is, yes.
@@algini12 that's pretty common in Chinese history. Or at least that's what my mother-in-law said when I was confused why she wasn't shocked about anything in A Song of Ice and Fire....
I’ve been waiting for this one. One of my all time favorite historical figures of the Roman period, and that’s seriously saying something
I want to learn more about Celtic history. Thank you Simon!
The prob with the history of a people who had no writing is that we only get written records from their enemies. Plus Victorian romanticism adding "Victorian values". And modern scholars telling us what the Celts thought as if that were proven fact, rather than what they THINK they thought, or MAY have thought.
Everything has to be filtered through the prejudice of their contemporary enemies, or romantics or modern "what *should* have been"
@@franl155 where there is a will, there is a way. I would have to study old traditions and hear old folklore and stories. I'm sure the essence of Celtic lives on especially up north and on the isle of Ireland.
Fascinating! I wish we could get more details about the amazing history of Britain.
Thanks for sharing this,
From a New England Yankee.
*Thanks* *Whistler!* Hermann Arminius has always been my prime Roman Crushing Hero _....now there's also Boudicca!!!_
Except the romans crushed both of them lol
@@annatarlordofgifts2442 The current bull goose loonies of Rome are in the end game of destroying THEMSELVES with perversions and corruption. Soon they'll fade away.
All's well that ends well!
@@annatarlordofgifts2442 no only Boudica.
Excellent, thank you - I grew up in Iceni country and she was special to me as a girl, good to see her here.
Thanks, Simon. She's been one of my favorite historical figures for years, and you're correct that she doesn't get the recognition she deserves.
And not to forget that she is currently recieving the wrong kind of recognition as well. She is recognised as a strong warrior even though she lost the only real battle that she had fought against a large army with an even larger force. But at the same time, she doesn't receive enough recognition for unifying the divided and often conflicting Celtic tribes under 1 banner.
@@Progamermove_2003 As I recall, she was betrayed and badly outnumbered, but managed some pretty impressive violence before that.
@@ericthompson3982 And from what I recall, she had a significant numerical advantage over Romans (maybe not 10 to 1 but you get the point right). And before that battle, she had fought only against VASTLY outnumbered forces and weakly defended cities.
But at the same time, she achieved such kind of numerical advantage in the first place because she managed to unite the divided and often conflicting Celtic tribes under one banner. Maybe it's time when we shall recognise her for her real achievements instead.
@@Progamermove_2003 I honestly am just glad to hear that other people are familiar with her. She's legitimately one of my historical heroes.
I appreciate how you deliver a fairer representation of what might/did happen: without the usual biases. Great approach.
Thank you so much for the effort you put into these videos. I have been binge watching them for days now.
I wish my history classes taught me about this woman. I have never even heard of her name before. She's so awesome.
Seco4800 I saw a
Movie in USA tv and in United Kingdom there are a big statue. I think the channel was history pbs but few years ago.
Seco4800 perhaps if female historical figures had more taught about them, men wouldn’t be so arrogantly superior
Tyler Grant oh, a failure like the charge of the light brigade? A disaster if ever there was one but still taught as history
phoenixkhost
Olga is definitely interesting. So is her husband Igor.
As you can see, I’m a fan of Vikings and we’ll be seeing the Rus’ in Season 6. Oleg Of Novgorod, Prince Dir and Askold will play major parts in the story. We know it isn’t going to be historically accurate, but fun nonetheless.
You should check out the book, Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge! 🙂 It's a excellent book!
Fascinating as usual. Can't wait for more.
The picture at 13:35 that is a Greek Phalanx not a Roman Legion.
Yeah, that's a pretty big oversight.
Good eye sir
He made a similar mistake on the Alexander constantly showing roman legions when he should have shown the Macedonian phalanx, makes me wonder how much he knows and how much he reads on cue.
@@Maesterful Look at the credits. Simon is the narrator, not the writer or... Graphic gatherer lol He has mentioned the writers before.
@@BaldingClamydia Ah right so it's their fault, my bad.
Another informative, accurate and very enthralling video. Two thumbs up !
I never heard of her. Thank you for this video. Now I want to learn more about her.
This is why I love your channel. I always learn something new.
@G G cartimandau was a queen b4 & after boudiccan kick off ended.
There isn´t much more to learn, she tortured and massacred defenseless roman and britons civilians.Not much bravery in that
It's like you freaking knew that I just watched a documentary about the roman invasion of britain and put this up. cheeky
Simon, Julius Agricola , Tacitus' father in law was present at the battle of Watling street. Hence there is a fair chance that Tacitus had a first hand report of the battle and speeches . Also we know that Tacitus is as fair as an ancient historian can be . He has been found to be correct with most of his historic records.
cap
You have the burden of real proof
U are actually so dumb
I remember a few years ago I met my girlfriend's (at the time) niece, she woud of been 7 at the time and my background picture was one of Boudicca. Straight away she knew who it was without me asking and we managed to have an hour or so long conversation about her and her legacy. Strange how a love for this woman can stretch across multiple generations!
Love of how she took 80k people to their deaths?
@@J040PL7 Mate if someone raped my daughters, I'd burn everything to the ground just to get back at the person who did it.
@@OfficialFingazMC that's why emotional people shouldn't lead other people, she wasn't wrong to want vengeance, she was wrong because she acted out of emotion which led to tens of thousands of people to walk into their deaths and her daughters to go from sexually assaulted, to dead.
The Romans were literally with their backs to the wall, so she had inunerous tactics she could use from starving out the Romans, to cotinuously pelt them from a distance and wait for them to break ranks. No sane man would have lost that battle, it was embarrassing for any man, luckily she wasn't a man and is revered for it instead.
@@J040PL7 I think it's because she stood up for herself more. Not just because she was a bird. I agree the last battle was fought completely tactically wrong, but to stand up for yourself against that kind of violence and oppression, you have to give them their due, male or female.
Is that why you dislike her? Because she was a lass?
@@OfficialFingazMC I don't dislike her, it's that people praise her for her leadership, when it literally led to one of the most ineptly fought battles of all time.
Worst thing is, no one talks about the guy who won the battle being outnumbered 20 to 1 🤣
You have no idea how much I love this video. This lady's my new hero.
I was always fascinated with Boudicca ever since I learned of her while living in East Anglia in the UK. Indeed a true hero.
Been waiting for this for agesss!😊😊
She was a woman of great courage, and I salute her for her fearlessness.
Love this woman! Wish we knew more about her. Thank you for such interesting historical stories. I watch you almost every day, you're amazing ❤!
I just wanted to say, out of all the youtube videos about anime, history and nature I have watched, you are the very first person I have subscribed to. I am no genius or scholar of history, but I can safely say that you are the first person that I have genuinely enjoyed watching AND have given only accurate, substantiated information in a way that is not only education but not fucking boring. I have literally only been watching for a day, cherry picking the videos that piqued my interest, but now plan to watch your videos in their entirety. Thank you so much for a god damn intelligent, non biased view of humanities messed up history. Take care, mate
Thank you, for telling yet another great section of history that we may not have known about. No matter how much or how little history you have been exposed to, you almost never get a felling that these where real people. Somehow we lose the real side of history and this was a great story told by a great story teller, I felt bad for her and her people.
Can you do a vid on Grace O'Malley please? Thanks. love your channels
I agree!
Yes I agree. Or Micheal Collins
O'Malley was an awesome pirate.
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Boudicca & the celtic people
3:40 - Chapter 2 - The roman invasion
6:40 - Chapter 3 - Boudicca's rebellion
10:00 - Chapter 4 - The battle of watling street
14:20 - Chapter 5 - Death & legacy
Thank you for this video, Simon. Boudicca was unique.
This is the best I’ve watched from this RUclipsr.
Once again, excellent job Simon. We history buffs love the stories. Thanks.
Part of my heritage is traced back to the picts, it's so fun to learn about.
I just visited Scotland for the first time in my life. I have a high respect and admiration for The Scots!👍
Subbed to this channel a couple weeks ago and today I randomly stumbled upon a titanic video from TopTenz and saw Simon. Small world!
I had the same experience, but backwards. I found his channels and thought, "Isn't that the guy who used to be on TopTenz?" I'm glad he's managed to succeed with all of his own channels.
😂🤣🤣 he runs like 10 YT channels
Just wait till you happen upon business blaze...
Haha dude this is the last place I expected to see you!!
There's a documentary on Netflix that goes over Boudicca also called Warrior Women ❤️
Stories by Irish
not "Warrior Women", it is "Warrior Queen"
@@LadyWhinesalot Warrior Women, it's a series of documentaries that have an episode dedicated to different women. Boudicca is one of them, as is Joan of Arc, and a few others. The narrator is Lucy Lawless.
@@StoriesbyIrish “Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. Is, what you mentioned, a diffy series?
@@LadyWhinesalot Much different. Each episode has a different person that Lucy Lawless narrates about their life, etc. I'm not surprised that it shares the same name of another documentary. Sorry for the confusion ♥️
I loved that series!
Thank you for the simple, but eloquent differentiation of Celts. Our cultures are so intertwined, it can be difficult to explain how we are alike, and where we depart. ☘️
Only been watching this channel for a few days now and watched maybe 20 episodes or so but I can't get enough of the way Simon says "empire" and I can't believe I've not seen anyone else say the this because he says it nearly every episode a few times lol
Hi Simon I am enjoying your Bios very much learned so much about these fascinating historical figures.......keep up the good work ! Ron L Griffiths
You thought I was Cassius, but it was me,
*DIOOO!*
I see that you're a man of culture.
yare yare daze
ZA WARUDO
Holy shiiiiiiiii
LMAO!! Good lord! Jojo memes are even infiltrating the historical channels.
Boudicca movie or miniseries starring Gwendolyn Christy. Get on it Hollywood.
Glad I'm not the only one thinking this.
Perfect choice!
Well there´s the Bonekickers version that... Actually never mind, that version was a big pile of crap.
There's already a movie, starring Alex Kingston. It shows how she became the warrior queen, even how she faced up to the enemy tribes. She shamed them into joining her.
@Tyler Grant go back to playing with you Legos little boy!!
The British Museum is a dream of mine. I have never heard of her. Thank you for the video. Love Biographies
Boudicca's story is a very interesting one. Wish we had more information on her.
Literally one of the best Native Briton icons I can think of, her and Bede.
Upon further study, I believe Bede was an Angle and not a Celt.
John James And the Picts were Scots.
John James These people couldn’t identify a Celt if one jumped up and bit them on the arse.
Foxtrot Oscar Picts got absorbed into the Scots and genetically no longer exist.
@G no they were germans, dutch, irish, Scottish and french
@@deltanovember1672 the Scots were a different tribe from Ireland that conquered the picts
A like to this video, not because Boudicca was a woman. But for my respect to a hero commander.
Respect for not taking this opportunity to virtue signal.And respect to Boudicca
@Gazzara5 - And then the Sun set over the Roman Empire, forever.
@@Tia-Marie Not really. Every nation that was once a Roman province continued to fight for the right to be the center of Roman revival for centuries to come
@@Tia-Marie revolt. The rise of the Roman city state, to the Roman Kingdom and then Republic, finally to the Empire. . And then the Byzantine Empire. . It is one of the longest lasting powers in all of human history.
With an influence and impact that is far reaching.
Without Rome there would be no British Empire.
I still don't get how is she a hero commander
Boudicca is one of my favourite historical figures (I live in Colchester after all!)
Thank you for spreading her story worldwide
Also you can still go into the catacombs of the Temple below Colchester Castle :)
love what you're doing here, so interesting and I'm now addicted. thank you
thanks :)
One of the most interesting stories I have heard. Thank you.
As someone with a celtic heritage (cornish) and hearing many stories growing up about boudicca, loved this episode! Glad she's getting more recognition. Kernow Bys Vyken
Modern women: if women ran the world there wouldnt be war!
Boudicca: pardon?
LOL. I laugh hysterically when I hear that comment! Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria in Britain, Olga, Empress Elizabeth and Catherine the Great in Russia and Queen Margrethe I of Denmark ALL had massive wars under their rule (Elizabeth I in particular routinely picked fights with the Spanish). Many female monarchs seemed to love war almost as much as the men!
@@thunderbird1921 To be fair there were sociopolitical reasons for why female monarchs waged wars. You can research the topic, it's actually quite interesting.
@@Contrarian-v7p
There are sociopolitical reasons for all wars.
@@Lilliathi Yes but these were reasons that specifically affected female monarchs and made war expedient or necessary in a way it was not for male monarchs *because* of their gender. Bit of a difference.
@@Contrarian-v7p
Then that's what you should have said. Regardless, being perceived as potentially weak is a problem that many male monarchs faced as well, I wouldn't call it uniquely female. A fun theory, but without any real evidence. Most likely convenient feminist propaganda to shoot down criticism of the idea that men are responsible for humans being war-like.
My black ass read about Boudicca in "Ravens of Avalon" by Diana Paxton and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Been in love with her ever since ❤❤❤
I hope your stories are around when my kid is born, we used to read stories like these as a child and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Excellent to listen to as well. keep it up!
...there really needs to be a MOVIE on this Fantastic Warrior Goddess!!!! Ivette :)
Boudicca is the best image of a tragic hero fighting for a righteous but lost cause history ever gave us. Even Spartacus and Vercingetorix pale in comparison.
Well, Vercingetorix was an excellent tacticia who nearky beat one of the best tactical minds Rome produced. Boudicca committed a brutal genocide against men, women and children until she lost the only battle she ever fought despite having basically 8-1 numericcal advantage
@@mybutthasteeth1347 jeepers, when you put it like that...she's the hellen keller of tacticians
@@thecheesemouse her strategy was 'everyone charge at them' so yeah pretty much
@@mybutthasteeth1347 10/10 would death charge again
@@obradinn7491 you fail to comprehend the circumstances.
And I think you don't have an understanding of slaves in the Roman Empire. Slaves were involved in virtually all professions. Some were doctors, some were extremely well educated, some were warriors (served as bodyguards or fought as gladiators), some had other skills.
Basically, most officers were somewhere in the west. There was no one to react to the rebellion.
A legion usually had 200 scouts. Usually auxiliaries (natives) who knew the land), These were sent ahead. The 200 slaves were most likely chosen with these skills in mind and sent for this purpose.
The garrison left in the city was determined before the rebellion.
Pausinias left before the rebellion.
The Primus Pilatus, with a full legion, was operating in cornwall before the rebellion.
When Boudica appeared at Camulodunum, no body had any intelligence. Nobody had any idea she had ammased a force of 120K.
By the time Pausinias returned from Anglesey, he had some idea. Hence why he didn't engage Boudica.
He retreated far to the west, followed by a huge number of Roman refugees, while Boudica pursued.
Eventually Pausinias decided to go down fighting. He had no expection of victory. He basically told his men, if we fight, we die with honor. If we run, we die tortured to death.
Fear and panic set in early in the battle on Boudica's side. It was caused by the wagons Boudica circled around the battle field (to keep the Romans from escaping)
Pausinias chose a location that provided a choke point. The vast majority of Boudica's army never engaged in any fighting. They were massed at the back.
When the Romans pushed the front row back, they pushed the rest of the Celts against the wagons.
That was when panic set in. And it spread like fire. Celts tried desperately to escape, but were trapped by the wagons.
The Romans didn't slaughter 80 000 Celts fighting bravely. They slaughtered the vast majority of that number of Celts as they tried to flee in a panic. But couldn't really because of the wagons Boudica placed. (this 80 000 includes men, women and children)
I'm surprised the number of dead isnt bigger. It means, 150K managed to escape the slaughter.
Rome once fielded 86 000 men...against an enemy of 50 000 The Romans lost 86000 men that day. Their enemy lost 5000. The battle of Cannae. If Romans always grossly inflate numbers, how do you explain this? There's many cases like this.
(Ancient historians report numbers they get from sources. The sources do inflate numbers, but there are usually multiple sources. Historians like Tacitus or Cassius will comment on how much salt to take with these numbers.)
So they fought naked/shirtless but also invented chain mail for defense in sword fights?
Zela Morre someone was listening!!
In Caesars gaulic wars he says the cavalry used chain mail. and some infantry wore it almost like a mantle, but not many. Keep in mind chainmail is enormously heavy and in rough terrain like central gaul its not as maneuve
*Maneuverable
Probably only nobles and clan chiefs could afford it.
There was a number of generous claims that are most certainly not agreed upon by historians/archaeologists/anthropologists and seemed to have been created in a moment of historical patriotism by some not-so-unbiased British or Celtic historians. The chain mail one and the paved road ones are both NOT seen as backed by much solid evidence by most historians. They had some fairly advanced societal structure and linguistics, but it's a stretch to act like it was even remotely comparable to that of the Romans at the time.
Thank you for the respect given in this Bio, Boudicca has long been a hero of mine. In victory or defeat her heroism is the equal of any others.
I mean yeah if you're into slaughter, human sacrifice and mutilation of children I guess she's kinda cool
Lance Pickett correctly a great warrior
Simon, the history guy, this old Tony , Paul harnel
The only reasons I come to you tube anymore.
Thanks Simon for another awesome vid.
It’s why I love this channel. I never knew that about the chain mail and paved roads. Thank you.
Empaaaa :D
I love this show! Thanks for making quality content.
Boudicca for Prime Minister!
@Woiller- Relic our le femme churchille
@Woiller- Relic rightfully so
Rightfully so? Just because someone lost their family to a tragedy gives them no right to torture and maim civilians, men women and children alike.
@Woiller- Relic Only if you was for Rome, otherwise, she was quite nice I recon
Always been fascinated by her since Horrible History did a song based on her 👍🏻
As always nice work guys 👌🏻👌🏻
Isn't Horrible Histories just so awesome.
Hello Pancakes dam right and I’m 34 yrs old lol
(Never to old to learn 👍🏻)
Paul Hudd she was called the scourge of the romans
Judith Sanchez sounds like my ex 😂
Thank you for this channle. Everyone involved in the channel if you feel down just know. Writing the dialog, searching it , saying it or all im blind to see of what makes these videos. Your work makes me and many others happy so thank you. I know its random but i hope you see my sincerely.
Your final comments about the Celts and Boudicca sounded so heart felt and full of reverence that I almost got a bit choked up. It seemed very real.
I'm American and my first encounter with Boudicca was from the Xbox game Ryse: Son of Rome.
Always, always very informative and entertaining. You folks do a great service in keeping history alive and often clearing up any misconceptions we’ve might have had. Thank you to all the staff concerned and especially you Simon, super great narrator. You put your body and soul in your delivery. 👍👍
Two points of correction here on this video.
The Celts lived in a far bigger area than just Britain. Britain was only colonised later in the Iron Age by the Celts and they took their own turn apart from the "mainland" Celts.
They lived in a big part of Europe below the Rhine and Danube except for Southern Spain, Italy (except for the Po Valley) and Greece.
The Galatians even moved to Turkey and were employed as mercenaries by the Ptolemeaic dynasty in Egypt.
The Picts and Celts were 2 seperate groups of people who were not related.
The Picts are said to be possibly related to the Brythonic Celts who lived in modern day England, Wales and Lowlands Scotland.
This was an unnecessary ‘correction’. He said celts are a grouping term and named Gauls, Brittonic, Gaelic as some examples. The proto Indo Europeans did spread from the Caucasus and mixed and inter bread with the original hunter gatherer Europeans that represented several earlier migrations. The video covers a much later period though and is hardly a correction. Fair enough if you want to point out they were not the very first inhabitants but it’s not a correction. The Basque language is an isolate and they believe it is rooted in the original European hunter gatherer language. The subject is fascinating but again this was a 20 minute video on a Celtic Warrior Queen. Not pre Indo European expansion.
And Pictish is an insular Celtic language. Related closely to Brittonic.
Never heard of Boudicca, thanks for the introduction!
I’m just glad you said her name right. So many say it wrong really irritates me. They don’t give her enough credit and they don’t even get her name right. Loved it!
This is how algorithms work for me to find this video.I read the comments and saw a comment from someone I dont know , have never met, but have seen In some of the subscribed channels I watch on my football team, huh go figure as his interest in the same football club probably lead to how it came up in the up in next and recommended videos. I have a big interest in Boudicca or Boudicia ,as i am British and she has been on the 50p, all my life. Royal Britannia, but not just this . I used to live with a past member of the British movement Fred (RIP), who was a skinhead and back when I remember I used to hang with the skins with my older cousin in my youth but he more a Mod. Fred years later had turned into a hippy growing dreads later in life and become a historian on the Celts. I'm from London but grew up some in the town of Colchester with relatives, and my mum now lives on the river Colne in Rowhedge where the Romans first used to transport there goods once they had conquered the town.
The Romans also conquered the area as if it wasn't for Noble land owners showing them how to do so. At first they tried but didn't succeed as the Celts held them down in marsh land unknown to where the Romans first made the attack crossings. But this was a serious problem as the celts knew how to fight in the marshy area. Could have been Maldon If i remember. They then went back to Rome gathered more troops including African slaves and proceeded back. Some had found their way around the marsh land and took some land owners hostage it was this that gave the Romans some advantage by tail, as the land owners thought the giants had landed. The average height of the Celt was 5ft .6 but the African warrior was 6ft.4. They made a deal with the roman centurions, that if they could keep there land they would tell the roman garrisons how to avoid the marshland and come into better waters of east Anglia, giving them better strategic offensive. This gave them the upper hand in strategic manoeuvring to them eventually conquering the Celts Icinic tribes and then enslaving queen Boadicea. They killed her for what was thought to be a surrender to make a deal to save the rest of her armies.
I thought that the Picts were (one of the main) ancestors of just the Scottish people, but for some reason the Scottish are not mentioned here.
The Scottish are named after the Scotti, a tribe that migrated from Ireland a bit later than this. The Picts were indeed in what is now Scotland at the time. Most people will refer to the people who lived in Scotland (beyond hadrian's wall) as the Picts, while those south of the wall as the Britons (or Romano-Britons). Truth is that both words have the same etymology. Picti, Britanni, Pretanni, Prydan, Brythonic, Brettonic, Breton etc etc all come from the word meaning 'painted ones' . The modern word Great Britain can be traced back to meaning 'Big land of the painted people'
@@charliedavey4129 thank you!! 👍
@@charliedavey4129 my DNA is 65% Pretanni
@@charliedavey4129 thats awesome!
I'm putting a like on this because there is no "love" button. ❤❤❤
I remember there's a statue of her, on her chariot, across the street from Parliament..at the North-west end of the bridge.
I come from Iberica (Spain , Galicia )Spainish , Celtic roots . I am so proud to learn about her ,she is my absolute hero now
Once again, thank you so much for the adding perspective; together with a degree of your own tangible context to increase my understanding of Alex Kingston's 2003 film- BOUDICA WARRIOR QUEEN.
Quite possibly my favorite figure (or legend) from ancient history, especially because I am of mainly British & Irish heritage.
When I get my time machine I'm going back to help the Iceni .
Good luck getting Celtic tribes to cooperate with each other.
I'm going back to give young me the tattslotto numbers.
@Gazzara5 No so much if you brought automatic weapons with you and a couple of tanks.
@@RD-kq3ml if you had a straight up time machine I'd say go to the future first and pick up some plasma rifles lol
And I gonna stop you cause I want to exist
Yay! Boudicca video! 😊
Her story has fascinated me ever since I read about her as a 12 year old kid.
Brilliant description to honor her. Thank you!
Please do a video on Lt General Lewis B “Chesty” Puller!! The most decorated US Marine that ever lived. His story is amazing.
O.K. Peter Jackson - This is your next movie !!
I would love to see Disney doing her story. It would be good for young girls to see a woman so strong.
@Tyler Grant Yes, young girls need to look up to a strong woman, whoever that may be. Failures are a part of life, just like you would encourage young boys to look up to historic "brave" men. Snakes of patriarchy, smh.
no, it's not!
@Enda Dorgan Sorry what? what told you I am joking?
@Sea dreams Wow!
What a great argument!
Totally destroys all of his points!
(Sarcasm)
I always feel that Boudicca was the beginning of the concept of 'Britannia', reinforced and tapped into by Elizabeth the 1st and then by Queen Victoria (plus Maggie Thatcher and our current lovely Queen!).
Boudicca is one of my favorite and beloved heroines throughout history!! Love the fact my family ancestry is of Europe!! 🛡️✨🗡️🤍
I'd like to suggest Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald for a future episode. A man with a fascinating life.
Thanks for the work you do, it's greatly appreciated.