Today (31st October), it was more like Christmas than Hallowe’en here at the Roman circus centre – two fab. new books arrived for the Trust’s library: these are the two […]
Monthly Archives: October 2016
On Tuesday (25th October), a Trust member of staff happened to be in Wiltshire and was able to call in at Castle Combe near Chippenham and collect a special online […]
On Monday (24th October), the Colchester Archaeological Group (CAG) presented the fourth in their winter programme of lectures for 2016/17 here at the Roman circus centre. This lecture was titled […]
On Saturday 15th October, the Colchester Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) held their October meeting here at the Roman circus centre. Colchester YAC organiser Barbara Butler writes: ‘… There were nineteen […]
The Colchester Monopoly was launched today (21st October) at an event at the Mercury Theatre. Trust office manager Jules represented the Trust at the event, because the Colchester Monopoly includes […]
On the 17th October, a Tweet with three images was posted by @SarahEBond about the remarkable ‘Kugelspiel’ (ball game) from the hippodrome in Constantinople: ‘… Visitors to the Hippodrome at […]
Last week (13th October), local historic re-enactor Mike Mount very kindly donated a gift to the Trust and to our former NAAFI building – a souvenir programme for a wartime […]
This was a busy week in ancient Roman world – there were three religious festivals in a row, ie Meditrinalia on the 11th October, Augustalia on the 12th October, and […]
‘I thank God, and ever shall, it is the shepe [sheep] hath paid for all …’ (This is a well-known saying by 15th-century wool merchant John Barton of Holme-by-Newark, Nottinghamshire, […]
Today (10th October), Trust volunteer Chris was here at our HQ – the Roman circus centre – processing pottery from the historic Flagstaff House complex. This complex of listed and […]
- 1
- 2