Boudica: The Woman Who Lit a Fire Under Rome

Celebrating Women's History Month with a badass a day.

Can’t not have Boudica, c’mon now.

There’s a story I keep coming back to, one that feels like a thunderclap in the quiet of history. It’s the story of Boudica—a woman who looked at the might of the Roman Empire and said, “Not today.”

Boudica wasn’t born a warrior. She was a queen of the Iceni, a Celtic tribe in what’s now eastern England. Her life change…