Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

was there a significant celebration of the Cult of Claudius around this time?

His birthday was on the 1st of August, so that would be celebrated as his dies natalis. His death and Nero's dies imperii were the same day, of course - 13th October.

I think Tacitus says that the priests of Claudius were conscripted from the local people - perhaps the Trinovantes tribal nobility?

Seutonius had to hand his army over to Turpilianus whilst the war was continuing

"he was ordered, as though the war continued, to hand over his army to Petronius Turpilianus" - so Tacitus implies the fighting was actually over by that point, but I'm not sure why this is significant; surely all outgoing governors handed their army over to their successors?