Boudicca
Ask most modern Britons who Boudicca was and they’ll probably only be able to tell you one thing: that she showed the invading Romans that the indigenous Celts weren’t going to roll over and beg for them. But that is quite enough - as a proto-feminist freedom fighter, Boudicca has earned a place in British myth.
Boudicca was a queen of the Iceni tribe in what is now East Anglia. Her husband Prasutagus was a Roman ally who left instruction that when he die his kingdom be split between the Roman Emperor and his daughters. But on his demise around AD60 the Romans ignored his will and steamed into the place as if they had been given sole right to role. His daughters were punished by being raped and Boudicca was flogged.
