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.
Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage
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Young scouts and leaders filled the church of Saint Sulpice for high Mass
early Saturday morning May 27 to begin the three day event. The overflow
crowd su...
Corpus Christi and the Black Rabbit
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... ... and, to my previous post, I could have added the Aegean islands
with their mixed congregations, where, in those happy days of amity in the
eighte...
Preview: A Bishop Confessor in Elizabeth I's Reign
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After our Memorial Day break, I'll be back on the Son Rise Morning Show
Monday, June 5 to discuss another of Father Henry Sebastian Bowden's *Mementoes
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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 ...
The first of the north London parochial shrines listed on the Pilgrimage is that at the parish church of Islington. I posted about this in Our Lady of Islington
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