Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...
Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...
A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...
Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...
Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...
Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.
A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.
Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...
These include the famous warrior queen Boudica, who started an uprising against Roman occupation ... "But archaeology, and ...