One of the best observers of the tribes of Celtic Britain was Tacitus who wrote on historical events in Britain. Another was a Roman geographer called Ptolemy who wrote a description of Britain ...

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in ...

We don't know much about Boudicca, because she lived many years ago. And only two people, called Tacitus and Dio, wrote about her at the time, but their stories were very different. Boudicca was ...

Instead, the opposite happened. The widowed queen, Boudicca, was whipped and her daughters were both raped , according to the writings of Tacitus. To avenge this outrage, Boudicca waited until the ...