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From: "Anne Peat" <>
Subject: Re: Boudicca
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:26:40 +0100


Hello Colleen,
Yes, she did whip the Romans good and proper - her tribe burned them out of
Colchester, St Albans and London before the tide turned.
So, enjoy!
Best wishes,
Anne

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>From: "Colleen" <>
>To:
>Subject: Boudicca
>Date: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 0:26
>

> Hello Elmo and everyone,
>
> Well, simple things please simple minds and I'm unrepentant in my love of
> this drama. Goodness knows my spirits needed lifting after a miserable week
> or so and Boudicca certainly cheered me up! Ok she was a female Braveheart,
> but why not? Why should the Scots have all the fun?
>
> Given the lack of information about Boudicca, no one could have produced
> this drama without using poetic license. One thing the drama's author got
> right, Boudicca well and truly whupped those rotten Romans - good on that
> girl! That's reported in the Roman chronicles of the period, isn't it? And a
> layer of ash beneath the excavated ruins of Colchester is still there to
> tell the tale. Ok, go on then, tell me I'm wrong. :-)
>
>
> Colleen
>
>

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