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First published in the United States in 2006 by
The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.
Woodstock & New York
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Copyright 2005 by Vanessa Collingridge
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ISBN 978-1-46830-381-0
For my parents, Gordon and Irene,
and their redheaded tribe of Collingridges.
BC | |
1000 | Bronze Age Urnfield culture exists throughout Europe |
Iron Age Celtic Hallstatt culture appears in Europe and expands | |
The Massiliote Periplus is written in the Greek port of Massilia (Marseilles), | |
Hillforts built across southern Britain, including Danebury Ring, Hampshire | |
Greek writer Hecateus describes the Keltoi | |
La Tne culture evolves and starts to spread through Europe | |
c 400 | Celtic tribes The Gauls invade northern Italy |
c 390 | The Gauls sack Rome |
c 325-320 | The voyage of Pytheas, who describes Britain and Ireland as the Pretannic Islands |
Celts ally with Carthage in Second Punic War | |
c 200-100 | Development of large fortified settlements called oppida in Europe |
First Belgic migrations from the Continent to Britain | |
Romans fight and finally defeat the Cimbri and Teutones | |
Danebury hillfort is abandoned for unknown reasons | |
First triumvirate: Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar | |
Julius Caesar campaigns in Gaul | |
Julius Caesars first invasion of Britain | |
Julius Caesars second invasion of Britain | |
Gaulish rebellion led by Vercingetorix; defeated at Alesia | |
Commius flees to Britain | |
Caesar crosses the Rubicon | |
Vercingetorix is paraded through Rome and then executed | |
Julius Caesar murdered by fellow Romans; end of Roman civil war | |
Second triumvirate: Marc Antony, Lepidus and Octavian | |
Battle of Actium: Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavian | |
Octavian becomes first Roman emperor, Augustus | |
AD | |
15,000 Roman soldiers wiped out by native Germans in Teutoberg Forest, | |
Augustus dies; Tiberius becomes emperor | |
Tiberius dies; Caligula (Gaius Caesar) becomes emperor | |
Emperor Caligula abandons invasion of Britain at French coast | |
Emperor Caligula murdered; Claudius takes imperial throne | |
Emperor Claudius invades Britain; Caratacus leads resistance | |
First revolt by the Iceni tribe, soon quashed by Romans | |
Publius Ostorius Scapula leads military action against tribes of Britons | |
Romans help Cartimandua retain power as Brigantian Queen | |
c50 | London established as Roman trading port |
Caratacus finally defeated in battle, handed to Romans by Queen Cartimandua | |
Emperor Claudius dies, probably poisoned; Nero becomes emperor | |
52-58 | Conquest of Wales continued under Aulus Didius Gallus, then Quintus Veranius |
Cartimanduas husband, Venutius, rebels against her | |
Emperor Nero has his mother, Agrippina, murdered | |
58-61 | Gaius Suetonius Paulinus becomes governor of Britain |
Client King Prasutagus of the Iceni dies, leaving his lands jointly to Nero and his two daughters. His Queen, Boudica, attempts rule in his place | |
Suetonius invades Anglesey to extinguish Druid resistance | |
Boudica rises up in revolt against the Romans, sacking Colchester, London then St Albans before being defeated and dying | |
Widespread retribution against the rebellious tribes of Britons | |
Nero commits suicide | |
68-69 | Year of the four emperors; finally, Vespasian becomes emperor |
Venutius splits from Cartimandua who takes Vellocatus as her new consort; Venutius leads army against her; she is rescued by Romans but disappears from history | |
Romans defeat Brigantes under Venutius and annexe territory | |
Mount Vesuvius erupts; Vespasian dies; Titus becomes Emperor | |
Titus dies; his brother Domitian becomes Emperor | |
Tacitus claims that Agricola, provincial governor of Britannia, defeats Calgacuss army of 30,000 Caledonian warriors at Mons Graupius | |
122-30 | Hadrians Wall built |
Roman Britain ends |
Whoever were the first inhabitants of Britain, whether natives or immigrants, has never been answered: dont forget we are dealing with barbarians Tacitus, Agricola, xi.
The red layer was the colour of African earth. Flecked with shards of blackened pottery and charcoal, it could have been the debris of any human settlement anywhere on the continent. But this was not in Africa, or the blood-red clays of India, or the deserts of South America: this was in Britain and deep underground in the basement of a hotel in Colchester. The last sun that this soil had seen was a faint disc of light through a choking blanket of smoke. Two millennia ago, fire had wrapped up the towns population and all their belongings in a thousand degrees of burning a temperature so unimaginably hot that it could melt glass back into a liquid and cook the clay of the buildings into the rock-hard ceramic bones of death. This was the mark of an Iron Age Zoro; this was the destruction layer of Boudica.
Boudica the Iron Age queen of the Iceni tribe left her indelible signature on the landscape of Britain in the form of a layer of charred, red earth in Roman Britains largest three settlements, which she burned to the ground. But much more than that, she has also branded her legacy into the British psyche to the extent that almost two thousand years on, we are using her name as a byword for strong women leaders, fictional characters even as the epitome of the nationalist or Celtic patriot. Dramatically, she is cast as another Braveheart, rolled back in time and space to the lands of East Anglia and the time of the Roman conquests; in reality, Boudica was a collaborator turned rebel and then infamous warrior queen.
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