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, 13 March 2026

Footprints from the past


We begin on the coast of Angus in Scotland where human and animal footprints dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman period were discovered and recorded at Lunan Bay which lies between Montrose at the north and Arbroath at the south.



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