celtic history

Become a Patron! We hope you enjoyed the episode! Behold the beautiful duck brooch: Our modern sources include: Hadrian’s Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy BBC News: [...Read More...]

Hadrian’s Wall is a jaw-dropping engineering achievement stretching 73 miles across hundred-foot-high escarpments and rushing rivers, its earthworks dug deep into [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We hope you enjoyed the episode! Our modern sources include: Hadrian’s Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Hadrian’s Wall [...Read More...]

This week, we’re taking a deep dive into Welsh mythology from a queer, feminist perspective with the phenomenally talented Welsh artist Mari Catrin Phillips of MythsnTits. [...Read More...]

The Morrigan has many faces and just as many names: Badb, the scald-crow. Red-haired Macha. Nevin of the battle-frenzy. Fea; the deathly. Be Neit; the Woman of Battle. You [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here is a picture of a cow with BOOTS, courtesy of AHFG fan and patron Ratheon Hudson: Here is a Celtic coin of the Boii tribe from the 2nd or 1st century [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources for this episode include: Plutarch’s On the Bravery of Women (Loeb Classical Library edition) Cassius Dio’s Roman History [...Read More...]

In our last episode, we alluded to the fact that there were female as well as male Druids in the Celtic iron age. But if the picture of male Druids is spotty, the picture of [...Read More...]

Become a Patron!   Here is a lego reproduction of that ubiquitous Lionel Royer painting of Vergincetorix throwing down his arms before Caesar. We don’t know if [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our modern and ancient sources were pretty much the same for this episode as the last one: The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe The Celts: Search for a [...Read More...]