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News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Colchester Castle and Torre Abbey are among two historic sites that have been granted money by England's Heritage Lottery Fund, which will the medieval landmarks to carry out plans for ambitious projects. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced that six historic sites were being awarded money, including Stonehenge and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The HLF is celebrating its 15th anniversary...
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Quotidian Grace (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize (the UK's top literary award) for achievement in fiction this year. Since it is a historical novel about my favorite period of English history (the Tudors), I snapped it right up. The story centers on Thomas Cromwell, a commoner who rose from very humble beginnings to become a lawyer, secretary to Cardinal Wolsey and ultimately was named Earl of Essex...
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The Beard Trio (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
L OS ANGELES—Over five days, one of the nation's finest music venues has seen two of the finest film-music concerts in recent memory: One focused on classic movie music by seven distinguished composers, the other on music from Disney-produced films old and new. John Williams conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 16-18, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The theme...
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Sdapeze's Colchester (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Interesting to read the Standard last week with the call for Colchester to be become a World Heritage Site. What an odd suggestion for a town that clearly has quite the opposite ideas for itself. Our council has clearly demonstrated over many years that its only interest is building houses all over the place, clogging up our roads with more and more cars, having the highest parking charges in Essex...
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Favorite PASTimes (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Today we present the first part of Cindy Thomson's interview with Helen Hollick , who lives to the north-east of London UK on the edge of Epping Forest with her husband, adult daughter and a variety of pets which include a dog and two cats. She has two major interests: Roman/Saxon Britain and the Golden Age of Piracy--the early eighteenth century. She takes particular pleasure in researching the facts...
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David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
From the website of God's Own University: A Durham consortium of University and faith leaders hopes that Pope Benedict XVI will accept their invitation to make the first ever papal visit to the North East of England. Following a visit of Vatican representative and HM Ambassador to the Holy See, HE Francis Campbell, to Durham University in March of this year, a unique partnership of University, Anglican...
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Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The final round of the HRCR Richard Egger Insurance Clubmans championship, The 17th Regis Rally was run on 24th October 2009. Based for the first time at The Brookfield Hotel at Emsworth, this allowed Clerk of the Course, Mick Briggs to open up some challenging new roads around Portsdown Hill. The morning started very wet, as the final field of 50 cars left the packed hotel car park to head into the...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
While the big boys send out their shadow sides in the Carling Cup this week, giving us the chance to see whether Roman Pavyluchenko fancies it at Spurs and if Dean Sturridge can make a breakthrough at Chelsea, the reality of the extremes further down the league have never been more apparent.Down in Essex, Southend face the prospect of being forced into administration - and the statutory 10-point penalty...
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ERE Blog Central | ERE Blog Network (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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Calling England (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
If we were able to elect Judges this man would certainly be out of a job: A High Court judge has caused outrage by ruling that a group of travellers did not act in a 'cynical or ruthless' way when they built an illegal site over a bank holiday weekend. The six families chose the Easter break, when planning officers were off work, to put down 1,000 tons of hardcore on a green belt field. But yesterday...
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And Another Thing (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
I don't buy into the relative poverty argument that surfaces on the Today programme every year. I'm not sure of the significance of the fact that there's a greater wealth gap than ever before between an Albanian beggar on Oxford Street and, say, Roman Abramovich. I can't see where that gets you. My working definition of real poverty in the first world comes from Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson...
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Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
The following is taken from Revd. Alfred Suckling’s book, ‘Memorials of the antiquities and architecture, family history and heraldry of the County of Essex’ (John Weale, London, 1845). The etymology of this name plainly refers to works of Roman construction, though it is now impossible to determine their precise appellation. Camden, however, has not scrupled to fix the Caesaromagus...
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Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Roman River Festival Coastal Essex, 7-11 October 2009 Over a long weekend this Autumn, five outstanding churches along the picturesque Roman River valley in coastal Essex will be filled with music played by world-class classical, jazz and folk musicians. The festival is a celebration of both music and our North Essex countryside, with its haunting coastline, delicious seafood, lovely villages and country...
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The Diary of an Itinerant Storyteller (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
I have been very busy lately traveling from one job to the next and so a bit lax at blogging. I will however endeavour to catch up with some of the events I have told at in August this coming September (I hope that makes sense) Last week however I spent telling at Colchester Castle in Essex and had plenty of time to think about the place and what it meant to me..... Colchester Norman Castle Keep Click...
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