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.


Thursday 14 December 2023

Renovating and investigating the Scottish Crown


Following their appearance at the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Giles in Edinburgh the Crown of Scotland and the other regalia has returned to the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle, but not before the opportunity was taken to give the Honours of Scotland both a routine cleaning and also an amount of specialised conservation work. That has revealed more about changes made over the centuries to the crown.

The work is described in an article in The National which can be seen at Historic conservation work reveals new details about Honours of Scotland

More information about what was learned from this work will be released early next year.


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