Once I Was A Clever Boy
Friday, 11 July 2025

New exhibition on the Vikings in northern England

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The BBC News  website has an article about the opening of a major exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum in the grounds of St Mary’s Abbey in Yo...
Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Fr Ray Blake - Daily Telegraph obituary

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Last weekend I wrote in my post  Fr Ray Blake RIP   about my memories of the much esteemed Brighton priest who had died the previous week.  ...

Medieval cellarage in Southampton

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The BBC News  website had a very interesting article recently about a striking twelfth century cellar in Southampton which is one of the sur...
Sunday, 6 July 2025

The Monomachos Crown

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Live Science  has a short article about the Monomachos Crown, apparently made in the years 1042-1050, and which features the Byzantine Emper...

Fr Ray Blake RIP

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I was very sorry indeed to hear last Thursday that Fr Ray Blake, formerly parish priest of St Mary Magdalene in Brighton, had died earlier t...
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Thursday, 3 July 2025

St Leonard’s Hospital in York

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There have been two reports online recently about the discovery of foundations of part of the buildings of the medieval Saint Leonard‘s Hosp...
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Wednesday, 2 July 2025

A Roman wrist purse from Moravia

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The Greek Reporter  website has an interesting account of the discovery in Moravia of the remains of a bronze Roman wrist purse for coins th...
Saturday, 28 June 2025

Living History - Candlemas 1461

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  The other day I came upon a video made by a group of re-enactors as an experiment in living history and archaeology which was conducted ov...
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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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