Parallax explores the lives of female warriors from the British Isles during the Roman invasion, including Celtic, Druid, Pict, Gaulish, and Brittonic women. The title refers to the phenomenon in which an object appears to shift depending on the viewer’s position, suggesting that history itself changes according to perspective. While Roman accounts celebrated the conquest as bringing roads, currency, Christianity, and urban centres, these narratives overlook the violence through which such changes were imposed—warfare, displacement, rape, and the destruction of communities. Figures such as Boudica, who united tribes after the assault of her daughters, exemplify resistance to colonial occupation. Roman writers shaped enduring images of these women through an imperial lens, yet Celtic society afforded women greater social, political, and economic agency than was typical in Rome. Rather than accepting Roman rule, these women fought fiercely to defend their land, culture, and ways of life, challenging dominant historical narratives.
