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Old team timetable featuring a silhouette of the Boadicea statue against Big Ben a haunting green sky.
I don’t understand the world. We could still have timetables that look like this.
LCC Trams May 1932.
#BoudicaFriday
#Echolands
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Roman lead sling shot / bullets and replica sling in white lit museum case
For ##FindsFriday some of the #Roman lead bullets / slingshot found close to VERVLAMIUM (St Albans) which @theduncanmackay.bsky.social thinks may be residue from Boudicca's final battle in AD 61
We think he's absolutely right
📷 Jan 2026 #VerulamiumMuseum
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Stylised long snouted animal with big eyes drooping over a conical base in green bronze.
For #FindsFriday & #BoudicaFriday let’s stick to Iron Age Norfolk Iceni metalwork - behold this ‘long-snouted animal’ mount found at Snettisham, c.300-100BC. Possibly from the base of a drinking horn, there is something of the droopy, sleepy carnyx about it…
British Museum
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A pair of gold wire armbands created from repeated figure eights, one seen through the loops of the other.
A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudica’s attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed @ColMuseums.bsky.social
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Waxwork of Boudica stabbing a Roman soldier in the throat with a spear.
‘Wish you were here…’
In a dangerous “don’t cross the streams” #BoudicaFriday and #Halloween combo, here’s my ‘Boadicea’ postcard bought at the (original) London Dungeon c.1983 when it was a waxwork museum. Shame they used a flash - the place worked a lot better in subdued light…
#Echolands
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Valiant comic cover with a colourful depiction of Boudica in her chariot with the title Who is It?
Ooh! Ooh! I know this! I know this! It’s err
it’s err, Boudoo…
it’s err, Bondi….
it’s err, Boaconstric….
it’s err, Baobab….
Nah, it’s no good, it’s gone now…
Valiant testing essential general knowledge February 1974.
Strap on your spinning scythes of death, people, it’s #BoudicaFriday!
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A king under a car park? Naaah, it’s #BoudicaFriday - what you need is a queen under a roundabout!!
Had great fun talking to the wonderful Niamh McGrath for her short documentary film about Boudica!
youtu.be/54yeHGEaNds?...
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Oh, is #BoudicaFriday a thing? Here's the Roman ruins of Verulamium outside the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England (2014). Famously torched by the warrior queen.
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #archaeology #RomanRuins #England #scape
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A gold Roman armlet from the Fenwick hoard.
Pieces of a rusty iron Roman helmets pieced together.
A silver Roman military award bracelet.
Broken and burnt Roman pottery.
Possessions of the Roman dead from Boudica’s destruction of Camulodunum AD60. These cabinets in ColchesterCastle, site of the Temple of Claudius & last stand of the Roman colonists, are a poignant cenotaph
@colmuseums.bsky.social
#Echolands -A Journey in Search of Boudica
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Iron Age bronze sword scabbard and iron sword with anthropomorphic hilt.
Part of the armoury of the Iceni, a bronze sword scabbard from Congham & shorter sword with anthropomorphic hilt from Shouldham, both in Norfolk. The right to carry such items was bitterly contested by the Iceni in the AD47/48 rebellion. #FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
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The Ladybird book Boudica on the rampage.
It’s #BoudicaFriday, for goodness sake, just destroy something.
Avoid defiles backed by forest, though.
#Echolands
(John Kenny, LB Book of JC & Roman Britain 1959)
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Men cleaning the Boadicea statue in London, one standing on the shoulder of a princess.
On the shoulders of giants…
The Boadicea statue undergoing a spring clean, June 1938. Original press photo.
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Welllll, it is a little early for #BoudicaFriday, but what’s a few hours between rebellious friends?
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Actress Sian Phillips as Boudica in an Iron Age chariot in central London.
Londinium rush hour every #BoudicaFriday.
Sian Phillips foiled in her attempt to destroy London by the humble black cab. Publicity shot for Warrior Queen, 1978.
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A carving of Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes on the Ribchester column.
For #BoudicaFriday a break from tradition, paying tribute to the Queen of the North, Cartimandua. A divisive figure to this day, & contemporary in space & time of the new Melsonby hoard, she held a vast, factionalised territory safe from the horrors of Roman conquest for decades.
Ribchester Column.
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Buried under the floor before Boudica’s attack in AD60, and the disturbance hidden beneath a large cupboard or chest (the metal fittings of which were found overlying the hole), the ill-fated owners never returned to retrieve their treasure.
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Edwardian stained glass image of Boudica.
A slightly greyer & colder start in Norfolk for #BoudicaFriday so a good time to appreciate the sun streaming through the warmth of the beautiful Boadicea stained glass window in Colchester town hall.
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Postcard of Edwardian pageant featuring Boudica in a chariot.
“Entry of Boadicea.” Colchester Pageant 1909, souvenir postcard. One of many marvellous surviving depictions of Evelyn Gibson in the starring role of Boudica. Her original helmet & breastplate are now on display in brilliant @colmuseums.bsky.social Castle.
Rise up Iceni!
#BoudicaFriday #Echolands
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Beautiful coloured book dustjacket of Boadicea.
For #BoudicaFriday, the glorious and all too rarely surviving dustjacket for Lewis Spence’s Boadicea, Warrior Queen of the Britons, published in 1937; as if the Thornycroft statue in London was polychrome, or suddenly came to life!
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Small cone with stylised long snouted creature emerging from it, in bronze.
If ever we needed a gorgeous, tiny Iron Age “long-shouted animal” for #FindsFriday, today is the day. One of a pair found at Snettisham, Norfolk, belonging to Boudica’s Iceni tribe, and possibly from a drinking horn. C.100-300 BC.
British Museum.
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Paperback of Echolands-A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay.
And as curating #BoudicaFriday to bring you a weekly shot of inspiring rebellion takes so much time & effort to curate (oh yes it does), take heart that the only cost to you is an occasional advert for #Echolands - A Journey in Search of Boudica, available now in paperback, audiobook & ebook 😉
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A colourful depiction of Boudica smashing into the Roman army in her chariot.
To aid your headlong chariot charge through the carnage of Friday to the glory of the weekend, have this dramatic & very colourful reconstruction of “Boadicea’s Rebellion” from the Aldershot Searchlight Tattoo in 1931.
#BoudicaFriday #Echolands
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Silver suffragette Boadicea brooch on a Votes For Women sash.
The Women’s Social and Political Union Boadicea suffragette brooch 1908.
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#WomensHistoryMonth
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