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 27 September 2024

An exceptionally early vintage


The Independent reports on the discovery during an excavation in Spain in 2019 of what is now the earliest known surviving sample of wine.


The cremated human remains and gold ring definitely suggest that this was not the usual Sangria of first century Hispania. One for the road to ….wherever, perhaps?


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