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, 11 July 2025

New exhibition on the Vikings in northern England


The BBC News website has an article about the opening of a major exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum in the grounds of St Mary’s Abbey in York. The exhibition, entitled Viking North will run for the next two years, and there is no additional charge to visit it. 

The display brings together items from the collection in York and from other museums. It includes items recently discovered and not previously on public display. The aim appears to be to show the whole range of life in the region  between the beginning of major Viking settlement in 866-868 with the invasion of those years and the Norman Conquest two centuries later.

The article about the exhibition can be seen at York exhibition tells story of Viking Age in the North


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