War in Britain: English Heritage

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Tim Newark. War in Britain: English Heritage

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INTRODUCTION

CELTS & ROMANS

SAXONS AND VIKINGS

KNIGHTS AND ARCHERS

TUDORS AND GUNS

ROYALISTS AND ROUNDHEADS

GEORGIANS AND JACOBITES

REDCOATS AND NAPOLEON

VICTORIANS AND EMPIRE

TOMMIES AND POPPIES

DAD’S ARMY AND THE BLITZ

FURTHER READING

General histories

Celts and Romans

Saxons and Vikings

Knights and Archers

Tudors and Guns

Royalists and Roundheads

Georgians and Jacobites

Redcoats and Napoleon

Victorians and Empire

Tommies and Poppies

Dad’s Army and the Blitz

RE-ENACTMENT SOCIETIES

Celts and Romans

Saxons and Vikings

Knights and Archers

Tudors and Guns

Royalists and Roundheads

Georgians and Jacobites

Redcoats and Napoleon

Victorians and Empire

Tommies and Poppies

Dad’s Army and the Blitz

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By AD 49, the Romans had reached the Severn and plunged into Wales, forcing Caractacus to flee again, but a northern Celtic tribe, the Brigantes, handed Caractacus over to the Romans in return for an alliance with them against their Celtic enemies. Ten years later, the Romans destroyed the centre of the Druids on the Isle of Anglesey and marched northwards.

In AD 61 Roman rule was imperilled by a major rebellion that culminated in the sack of London and the massacre of its citizens. Boudicca, or Boadicea as she has been called in later history, was the widow of the Celtic king of the Iceni who ruled East Anglia. Roman tax-collectors ransacked the dead king’s realm and had Boudicca whipped when she protested; her daughters were raped. With the support of her own and other outraged Celtic tribesmen, Boudicca led a revolt against the Romans, taking advantage of the fact that Paullinus, the Roman Governor, had moved most of his troops to north Wales.

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