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Evelyn Kadatz - Colchester WI
No full textNewspaper Article - Evelyn Kadatz of Edmonton's Colchester branchAWI CollectionEvelyn Kadatz of
Edmonton's
Colchester branch
takes a break during
the AWI convention to
admire the handicrafts
on display
Marianne : The first 30 years...
No full textThe memoir starts with childhood memories - religious life in the synagogue, Marianne Geernaert's father's (Bernhard David) role in the Jewish community in Hamburg, her school life, going to summer camp with her Zionist youth organization, recollections of the rise of Nazism. Her father was appointed to oversee the clearing of a Jewish cemetery. She describes Kristallnacht when she was at a Jewish camp on the country side. Her father was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. She describes the obstacles to overcome for obtaining permission to emigrate. Brief description of their stay in Amsterdam, then the trip to Palestine, farm life in Palestine. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1943. She married her husband John, then a British army officer, shortly after the war. Soon thereafter they moved to his home town Colchester, England. Many family and personal photographs are included following the biographical information in the text.Marianne Geernaert, September 2004Marianne Geernaert, née David, was born in Hamburg, Germany, on July 16, 1923. She describes her family as orthodox, with strong ties to the Zionist movement. Her father Bernhard David was a lawyer and leader of the Jewish community in Hamburg. He attended the first Zionist World Congress in Basel in 1897. Marianne was a member of Tse'irot, an orthodox Zionist youth organization. She went to a Jewish girls' school, and then to "Realschule", named "Israelitische Toechterschule" (School for Jewish daugthers). She left school in October 1938, and finally, in January 1939, she fled together with her father to Amsterdam, Netherlands. She joined a Youth Aliya group and in April she went by train to Marseille, France. They boarded a ship to Tel Aviv, Palestine. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1943, met her husband John during the war, and after the end of the war, they moved to his home town Colchester, England.David, familyWooley, GeorgeJews. Liturgy and ritualChildhoodCemeteries, JewishGurion, David BenShertok, MosheTse'irot MisrachiHachshara
Counterurbanisation and its linguistic consequences, 5th LangUE conference, University of Essex, Colchester, England
No full textColchester, Fortress of the War God
No full textThis volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site.The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town.Although the town, as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change was accelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialisation and the establishment of the military garrison.Since the 1960s Colchester has been subject to recurring phases of re-development, the most recent having ended only in 2007, which have had a significant impact on the historic environment. Fortunately the town is one of the best studied in the country
Colchester, Fortress of the War God
No full textThis volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site.The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town.Although the town, as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change was accelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialisation and the establishment of the military garrison.Since the 1960s Colchester has been subject to recurring phases of re-development, the most recent having ended only in 2007, which have had a significant impact on the historic environment. Fortunately the town is one of the best studied in the country
Colchester, Fortress of the War God
No full textThis volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site.The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town.Although the town, as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change was accelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialisation and the establishment of the military garrison.Since the 1960s Colchester has been subject to recurring phases of re-development, the most recent having ended only in 2007, which have had a significant impact on the historic environment. Fortunately the town is one of the best studied in the country
Images from a Historic Building Recording Survey of Queen's Hotel, Colchester, December 2020 - January 2021
No full textThis collections comprises of a series of images from a level 2 building recording survey of Queen's Hotel Public House, Colchester, undertaken by Place Services between December 2020 and January 2021. Place Services were commissioned by the developer/owner to record the former Queen's Hotel Public House in Colchester and undertake a Level 2 recording survey, in order to satisfy a condition of planning approval
Reconsidering the Butt Road "Church," Colchester: Another Mithraeum?
No full textIn recent decades, archaeologists in regions such as Germany, Italy, and France have developed an increasingly robust approach to the identification of early churches and thus dismissed a number of formerly misidentified examples in the process. In Britain, however, various supposed "churches" discovered in the twentieth century continue to be referred to as such despite a lack of strong evidence to substantiate this. One such example is a structure found at Butt Road, Colchester. In this article, the issues surrounding the interpretation of this building as a church are revisited and enhanced, while it is illustrated why other interpretations, such as a "pagan funerary banqueting hall," are also unlikely. Following this, the possibility that the building served as a mithraeum is put forward, for mithraea offer stronger parallels that account for the building's size and structure, as well as its faunal and small-find assemblages. As such, it will highlight the need to revisit other previously identified "churches" from Roman Britain and to apply a more rigorous analysis, which may yield alternative conclusions
Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.
No full textPhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his
lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful
novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is
now associated only with one regrettable episode, while
those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for
work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of
energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age,
he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has
found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion
for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest
language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his
later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a
novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too
often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama
which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the
stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to
detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity
that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration;
Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the
last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread
recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several
arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially
suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar
Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting
man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an
undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of
Robert Buchanan is long overdue
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