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 9 July 2023

Another Jacobite Counterfactual


Following my previous post a friend reminded me of the well-known Jacobite counterfactual essay published in 1926 by the prolific author on, inter alia, Jacobitism and Spanish history, Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet

His historical jeu d’esprit ties in neatly with the one from the Mail Online from last week and can be read at If: A Jacobite Fantasy


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