An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller…captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past’. TLS Duncan worked in archaeology for nearly two decades, predominantly with the University of Cambridge Archaeological Unit. He left full-time work to be a stay-at-home dad and pursue his own research. An original, revelatory, enthralling narrative history of how Queen Boudica led the greatest rebellion Britain has ever seen. Duncan has written a masterpiece – a journey and an investigation that fuses landscape and history, chasing the echoes of Boudica’s rebellion and finding its physical traces that still surround us today.’ Nicholas Crane Almost 2000 years ago, Boudica led the greatest rebellion Britain has ever seen. Within the space of a single blood-soaked year, she united the tribes to deliver blow after devastating blow to the Roman regime, culminating in a brutal, decisive battle.