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Vandrei's impressively wide research into the evolving, fractured, and often contradictory expressions of British historical culture takes in written histories, poetry, stage plays, historical fiction and pageants; emotion, religion, nationalism, and politics; notions of femininity; imagined portraits of Boudica, from the woodcut in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) to Thomas Thornycroft's bronze statue of her on Westminster Bridge; fittingly named ships in the Royal Navy; and a 1929 film. The text is supported by illustrations, footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index. * CHOICE * [Vandrei's] dissections of historical practices contained within are attentive not only to language, form, and visual culture, but also to every contingency and circumstance surrounding the construction of Boudican historical products. That this is achieved so skillfully across such a vast chronological canvas is worthy of significant admiration...a superb book that offers an enormous amount to think with for scholars of Britain, and of history. * Laura Carter, University of Cambridge *

Vandrei's impressively wide research into the evolving, fractured, and often contradictory expressions of British historical culture takes in written histories, poetry, stage plays, historical fiction and pageants; emotion, religion, nationalism, and politics; notions of femininity; imagined portraits of Boudica, from the woodcut in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) to Thomas Thornycroft's bronze statue of her on Westminster Bridge; fittingly named ships in the Royal Navy; and a 1929 film. The text is supported by illustrations, footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index. * CHOICE *

[Vandrei's] dissections of historical practices contained within are attentive not only to language, form, and visual culture, but also to every contingency and circumstance surrounding the construction of Boudican historical products. That this is achieved so skillfully across such a vast chronological canvas is worthy of significant admiration...a superb book that offers an enormous amount to think with for scholars of Britain, and of history. * Laura Carter, University of Cambridge * Vandrei's impressively wide research into the evolving, fractured, and often contradictory expressions of British historical culture takes in written histories, poetry, stage plays, historical fiction and pageants; emotion, religion, nationalism, and politics; notions of femininity; imagined portraits of Boudica, from the woodcut in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) to Thomas Thornycroft's bronze statue of her on Westminster Bridge; fittingly named ships in the Royal Navy; and a 1929 film. The text is supported by illustrations, footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index. * CHOICE *

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Martha Vandrei is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter. This is her first book.

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