A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.

The site belonged to a group the Romans named the “Durotriges,” researchers said, and this ethnic group had other settlements ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that ancient Celtic societies in Iron Age Britain were matrilineal and ...

Women led early British society 2,000 years ago, archaeologists find - Findings suggest in some parts of early British ...

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...

The social fabric of Iron Age Britain, spanning roughly from 800 BC to AD 100, has long puzzled historians and archaeologists ...

Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...

Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...

Iron Age cemeteries with well-preserved burials ... Two of the earliest recorded rulers were queens -- Boudica and Cartimandua -- who commanded armies. "It's been suggested that the Romans ...