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, 19 May 2026

Two of Anne Boleyn’s books on display


Today is the 490th anniversary of the execution of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London in 1536.

To mark the occasion the BBC News website has an article about two books which belonged to her which are on display as part of a major exhibition about her at one of her family’s homes, Hever Castle in Kent.  


Recent studies of Anne and her brother George, Viscount Rochford, have shown that they did have a serious interest in religion and read widely in what is now described as the Evangelical spirit of the 1530s.



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