Boudica or Boudicca was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.
John Opie's Boadicea Haranguing the Britons
Cassius Dio
Tacitus
Boudica depicted as a Tudor queen in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)
The Iceni or Eceni were an ancient tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and bordered the area of the Corieltauvi to the west, and the Catuvellauni and Trinovantes to the south. In the Roman period, their capital was Venta Icenorum at modern-day Caistor St Edmund.
Iceni plate brooch found at Caistor St Edmund (Norfolk Museums Collections)
Iceni coin
Iceni coin (reverse)
Boadicea and Her Daughters by Thomas Thornycroft