A city steeped in history and once the heart of Roman Britain, today its ancient streets boast museums, independent shops, ...

Once the capital of Roman Britain, this city has a history stretching back over 2,000 years and is home to one of the country’s most impressive castles. That city is Colchester in Essex.

A recent re-evaluation of the Colchester Vase, a 19th-century archaeological discovery, sheds new light on gladiatorial ...

A discussion between a Celtic and Roman man about the attack on Colchester by Boudicca. Boudicca and the Iceni tribe successfully defeated the Roman Ninth Legion and destroyed the capital of Roman ...

Colchester Castle is the largest Norman Keep in Europe and showcases archaeological collections covering 2,500 years of history, including some of the most important Roman finds in Britain.

Boudicca, a queen of the Iceni tribe, leads a major uprising of tribes in south-east Britain against the occupying Roman forces. The cities of Colchester, London and St Albans are destroyed.

The rebels burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (St Albans ... Tacitus estimated that they killed around 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons and slaughtered the Roman Ninth Legion.

On this day in 2023, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that a Roman mosaic was discovered buried under a pavement outside a vape shop in Red Lion Yard in Colchester.