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, 1 January 2026

New Year 2026


I will begin by wishing all my readers a happy and prosperous New Year for 2026. In uncertain times that seems all the more important than ever.

Having had a pause over Christmas I am ready to resume blogging and have quite a number of drafts to finish and publish as we move into the first weeks of January. There are quite a few on Roman discoveries and sites, which I may link as a thread, and others from the medieval centuries. There may also be some more book reviews. 



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