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Essex University: Oldest town (Colchester, Essex) rethinking
its history. Lectures, to be held at Firstsite,
centred around the statues depicted on Colchester Town Hall.
These are:
Boudicca
- Queen of the Iceni tribe who led an
uprising against Roman rule, which saw Colchester burnt to the ground.
St
Helena - Colchester's
patron saint who is said to have been the daughter of King Coel, wife of the
Roman Emperor Constantius and mother of the Emperor Constantine, the first
Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
Edward
the Elder - Anglo-Saxon king
who ousted the Danes from Essex.
Eudo
Dapifer - Steward to William
the Conqueror who oversaw the building of Colchester Castle.
Thomas,
Lord Audley – Lord Chancellor
under King Henry VIII.
William
Gilberd - Eminent scientist,
father of electrical engineering, author of De Magnete and
physician to the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
Samuel
Harsnett - Leading cleric
during the early part of the Stuart period and Archbishop of York under King
Charles I
Brentwood Gazette: former pub in Warley Hill to become a Tesco. http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/Tesco-takes-pub-site-Warley-Hill-store/story-17798589-detail/story.html
Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, showing oil sketches of Essex artist John Constable. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-art-of-seeing-nature-the-oil-sketches-of-john-constable/?sf8429566=1
Essex University: Lost mansion of Mark Halls near Coggeshall. Exhibition at Chelmsford Library until 21
January, and at Braintree Library from 25 January to 4 February 2013: http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?e_id=4812
Colchester Archaeological
Trust: congratulates the Essex Society
for Archaeology and History on its 160th anniversary: http://www.thecolchesterarchaeologist.co.uk/?p=2526
Chelmsford City Council. Touring exhibition on childhood memories,
until 27 January 2013: http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/community/news/memories-childhood
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