Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Colchester, the Romans and Literature

Colchester is a market town in the English county of Essex. 

It was an important town for the Romans and was for a time the capital of Roman Britain. It contains a Norman fort known as Colchester Castle. The Roman name was Camulodunum. 

Part of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders was set in Colchester and the town was also mentioned explicitly in Orwell's 1984.

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