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.


Sunday 16 October 2022

Oxford in the Civil War


Earlier this year I was helping a friend with a project he was working on about life in Oxford when it was the Royalist capital during the English Civil War. One of the things we used as a point of reference was a good article by Simon Thurley about the topic. 

I now see that a slightly expanded, and handsomely illustrated, version of that article by Simon Thurley has now appeared in Country Life. It can be seen at Oxford's forgotten history as the capital city of Britain


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