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Walking tours from your sofa, with poet, writer, walker and Colchestrian, Alice Goss...

SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2021 - A Jane's Walk 2021 event In Charles' words: "This misguided tour departs, as tradition has it, from the Golden...

MONDAY, MAY 3rd, 2021 - A Jane's Walk 2021 event Nicola Burrell takes us on a walk around Colchester's Hythe, and around Colchester town...

Max Fox reveals the true history of the Minories Folly that was actually built for the house next door and takes you along what was a...

VE-Day (Victory in Europe) was a very significant day during World War 2 (WW2), marking the end of the war in Europe.

"The History of Colchester in Eleven Acts" (Jane's Walk 2020) was going to include a performance at Firstsite of songs & poems...

The title of my walk was going to be "The Astonishing History of Colchester in Eleven Acts". As the world knows, it's not going to happen..

By Max Fox We are here because Claudius needed a conquest to save himself after the brutal assassination of Caligula in AD 41.Caligula...

Every story starts somewhere. Characters need a setting to play out their activities and, sometimes, the place becomes an integral part...

Digital mapping has been around a fair while now and few towns have missed the rich data collection and search opportunities they offer.

A walk led by Philip Crummy, Director of Colchester Archaeological Trust, back in 2010, of Tudor Colchester (returning via Riverside)