Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Tuesday 19 July 2016

The latest finds from the Mary Rose


The Daily Telegraph has a report  "The real rose: Mary Rose ship emblem discovered, 500 years on" about the latest discoveries at the Mary Rose in Portsmouth and that the ship had had a refit. Read the full story

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