The Essay: Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

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The Essay: Unearthing Britannia's Tribes: Boudicca - Warrior Queen

Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

Boudicca - Warrior Queen

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The Essay unearths the peoples of Iron Age Britain. Writer Ilka Tampke dreams of Boudicca.

Unearthing the peoples of Iron Age Britain, from warrior queens to Lindow Man. Australian novelist Ilka Tampke confronts the myths and meaning of legendary warrior Queen Boudicca.

Take a woad trip with the Essay as archaeologists, historians and writers reveal the tribes, rulers and those who encountered the islanders of Albion. Australian novelist Ilka Tampke is writing her latest Iron Age fiction about the legendary Queen Boudicca. How to give voice to a warrior queen with little evidence, much myth and a mindset utterly different from our times?

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The Essay unearths the peoples of Iron Age Britain, from warrior queens to Lindow Man.

Unearthing the peoples of Iron Age Britain, from warrior queens to Lindow Man, archaeologists, historians and writers reveal the tribes, rulers and those who encountered them.

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