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.


Tuesday, 20 January 2026

A carriage workshop on the Via Claudia Augusta


A recent excavation by Italian archaeologists has uncovered a carriage workshop alongside the Via Claudia Augusta, the road which linked Italy to Innsbruck and Munich. This roadside repair outfit is described in an article from Popular Mechanics at Archaeologists Discovered the Remains of an Ancient Roman Mechanic Shop


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