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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that British Celtic ...

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

There was also Cartimandua, the 1st-century queen of the Brigantes people ... "But archaeology, and now genetics, implies ...