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.


Monday, 25 April 2022

Sense at Silchester


In my recent post More discoveries from Roman Britain I noted the threat to install a solar panel facility at the site of the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum at Silchester. Happily the local authority has now emphatically rejected this planning application as can be read in an illustrated Mail Online article, which includes a summary of the history of the Roman town, at Plans for solar farm next to Roman village are REJECTED


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