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.


Friday, 12 August 2022

A seventeenth century cargo vessel found near Lübeck


Live Science reports on the discovery of a well preserved seventeenth century trading ship in the waterways near Lübeck. The vessel, which appears to have sunk in 1680, is extremely well preserved - a very unusual feature in those waters - and potentially offers an insight into the Hanseatic trade in lime at the time and also into contemporary domestic life.



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