Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
Rearview Mirror Chronicles
The Roman Invasion of Britain: The Rise of Boudicca (Part Three)
Rome thought Britain was broken.
In this third episode of the Roman invasion of Britain, we ride straight into fire, blood, and fury with Boudicca, the warrior queen who very nearly destroyed Roman rule on the island.
This is not the neat legend of school textbooks. This is the raw story of humiliation, revenge, and absolute rage. A widowed queen flogged in public. Her daughters violated. A people pushed beyond endurance. What follows is one of the most terrifying rebellions the Roman Empire ever faced.
We move from the burning of Camulodunum (Colchester) to the annihilation of a Roman legion, through Londinium (London) abandoned to the flames, and on to the final, brutal reckoning where tens of thousands die in a single afternoon.
This episode charts Boudicca’s astonishing rise, her command of mass rebellion, and the moment everything turns. Triumph gives way to catastrophe, and a woman who shook Rome to its foundations is erased from the battlefield, but never from history.
This is the fall of Boudicca, and the moment Britain’s fate is sealed under Roman steel. Dark, dramatic, and utterly gripping, this is Rome at its most ruthless, and Britain at its most defiant.
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