Once I Was A Clever Boy
Saturday, 2 May 2026

Anne Boleyn and facial recognition technology

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The quest to find a contemporary portrait of Anne Boleyn, as opposed to posthumous, later sixteenth century portraits has taken a new turn w...

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady in the Undercroft Canterbury Cathedral

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The second destination on the Pilgrimage is the shrine of Our Lady in the Undercroft in Canterbury Cathedral. Situated in the Western Crypt ...

Arthurian Legends - Sir Percival, Sir Marrok and Merlin

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Before the Pilgrimage leaves Glastonbury I will share three recent online articles that relate to the Arthurian legends Many places have cla...
Friday, 1 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Glastonbury

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The Pilgrimage begins at Glastonbury and wends its way to Walsingham. Glastonbury is a place of beginnings, many of them so shrouded in myth...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

A Marian Pilgrimage in May

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Tomorrow is May Day and the beginning of Mary’s Month. As I have done since 2020 I am going to post the itinerary day by day of a virtual Pi...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2026

How many people did you need to build a medieval cathedral?

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The answer to the question I posed in the title of this post is, according to the author of a recent article on Medievalists.net,  not what ...

Identifying the Picts

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Questions such as “Who were the Picts?” and “What happened to the Picts?” have dominated the historiography of early Scotland for certainly ...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Anne Boleyn sat here?

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I continue to be surprised by the number of people - mainly women I think - who have a sentimental fascination with Anne Boleyn. Whilst not ...
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Once I Was A Clever Boy
I am a Catholic and a historian based in Oxford, where I am a member of Oriel College. My research, for a long delayed D.Phil., is a study of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln in the second decade of the fifteenth century. I also work as a freelance tutor in History and as an independent tour guide. I was received into the Church in 2005 and am a Brother of the External Oratory of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory.
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