Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

he seemed pretty emphatic in 1980..... [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FlbP20Ex9c&t=1837s][/url]

Ha, yes! Michael Wood's great - the flares, the sheepskin jacket, the air of intensely hip earnestness... TV productions of today are so lacklustre by comparison.

But I think you're right about him being the source for a lot of the popular mythology too:

"Meanwhile, Governor Suetonius Paulinus was riding hell for leather, day and night, for London... The place is called Mancetter..."

The best bit, though, is at 28.50:

"... in fulfillment of some religious ritual demanded by the druids. Which brings us... to these!" - and he reaches off camera and comes back holding two skulls. And you know that somebody was just standing there with the skulls, waiting to hand them to him! It's almost Shatneresque.