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Who Really Was Boudica?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Exploring Roman Brutality and Sexual Violence in Warfare

Exploring the brutal tactics used by Romans, including sexual violence and enslavement as tools of war, and contrasting them with Boudicah's approach of killing rather than enslaving, raising concerns raised by Tacitus and discussing research on rape as a weapon of war.

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