New DNA analysis reveals women's central role in Iron Age Britain, uncovering a matrilineal society that shaped social and political power.

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

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

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

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

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...

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

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