An archaeologist who led the team which uncovered the Roman Circus has been recognised with an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours List.

While expanding a section of the A47 from a single lane to a double, members of National Highways and a team of ...

Army bosses at Merville Barracks are hoping to build a statue to mark this year’s 25th anniversary of airborne forces in Colchester.

A key exhibit is the Colchester Vase from AD175, discovered in a Roman-era grave in 1853. Researchers recently discovered its decoration depicted a real battle between two gladiators in Colchester ...

The Hawkedon Helmet is the only confirmed piece of gladiatorial armour from Roman Britain, possibly plundered from Colchester ...

Colchester, the second-largest urban area in Essex, has a lot to boast about when it comes to its cultural background. Formerly known as Camulodunum under Roman rule, when it functioned as the ...

A church built for Britain’s first known Christian martyr developed into The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, ...

The Colchester Vase depicts a real battle between a secutor and retiarius gladiator For hundreds of years, bloodthirsty spectators would gather across the Roman Empire to watch gladiators fighting ...

A picturesque city in eastern England purports to be the oldest in the country - with a history dating all the way back to the Iron Age. Colchester, the second-largest urban area in Essex, has a ...

Objects of particular interest include the Fenwick Hoard, a stash of Roman jewellery which was buried to keep it safe from Boudica's army. Colchester Castle is the largest Norman keep in Europe ...

Regal Reality, who is in fine fettle, poised for a hat-trick in the Bookmakers’ Association Bangalore Oaks (2,400m), the chief event of the races to be held here on Saturday (Jan. 4). False rails ...