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.
Visiting Oxford?
Allow me to be your guide... and discover the history of Oxford with an Oxford historian.
I offer a wide range of guided walks around the city and university. These can be a general introduction to the history and architecture or looking at specific themes and subjects.
I am a Catholic and a historian based in Oxford, where I am a member of Oriel College. My research, for a long delayed D.Phil., is a study of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln in the second decade of the fifteenth century. I also work as a freelance tutor in History and as an independent tour guide.
I was received into the Church in 2005 and am a Brother of the External Oratory of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory.
The Life of St Mark the Evangelist in Art
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St Mark, whose feast is kept today, is the only evangelist who records that
when the soldiers came to arrest Christ in the garden, “a certain young man
fol...
Anatomy of a Maltese Altar
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Malta is a small island nation located in the Mediterranean just south of
Sicily, but what it lacks in goegraphic size, it more than makes up for in
the ma...
Sir Thomas ... and three centuries later (2)
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So Thomas Blackburn iniquitously secreted away alabaster tablets within
Ripon church; subsequently, he denied having removed them from the church!
Which, o...
Saint Gabriel
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The angels call for our veneration and awe as part of God’s creation. Part
of the destructive modernism of the 1970s included advice to Catholic
school t...
The Lord’s descent into the underworld
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At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this
'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is about Holy Saturday,
about ...
I came across this poster on Pinterest the other day and it somehow seemed rather topical as to attitudes in the context of the post-Brexit vote discussions...
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