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, 19 March 2026

Prosopography of the Peasants Revolt


The academic website The Conversation has an article which introduces the prosopography that has been created of everyone named in the records of the 1381 uprising, and seeing how their previous, and subsequent ( if they had one) lives reveal them as individuals, and not just “the peasants”, revolting or otherwise.


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