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The '''University of Essex''' is a campus [[University]] based at [[Wivenhoe Park]] on the outskirts of [[Colchester]], and less than a mile from the town of [[Wivenhoe]]. It received its [[Royal Charter]] in [[1965]]. The University has 17 departments spanning the [[Humanities]], [[Social Sciences]] and [[Science]] and [[Engineering]]. It is a living, breathing example of the 60s love of [[concrete]] and, according to campus rumour, the architectural style is inspired by a traditional Italian hill village.

== History ==

When it was founded the University quickly acquired a world-wide reputation as a hotbed of [[socialism]] and student unrest, attracting newspaper commentary as far away as [[India]] and [[New Zealand]]. Protests in the sixties, seventies, and even into the eighties gave the university a reputation as a place of radical thought and direct action, of confrontation between students, staff and the administration, and, if you believe the media of the time, a place where the wearing of a beard and [[Mao]] hat was compulsory, and the [[Internationale]] was sung every morning by students and staff.

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