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.


Monday, 20 October 2025

Tudor royal locket in the news again


Several websites have had report upon the announcement of the launch of an appeal to acquire for the British Museum the early sixteenth century gold locket found in Warwickshire in 2019. Thought to be associated with a joust in October 1518 it bears the initials and plant badges of King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine of Aragon.

The Daily Telegraph has an article about the locket and the appeal at Proof that Henry lost his heart to his first wife (who kept her head)

The BBC News website also covers the story with additional illustrations at Golden 'Tudor Heart' Necklace Sheds New Light on Henry VIII's First Marriage

The Art Newspaper has a report about the locket which can be seen at Golden 'Tudor Heart' Necklace Sheds New Light on Henry VIII's First Marriage

The link on The British Museum website for donations to the purchase fund can be accessed at The Tudor Heart appeal

This seems to be a very well worth while cause to give to so as to secure the item for the national collection.

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