Once I Was A Clever Boy
Monday, 10 November 2025

Conserving pillboxes from WWI

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Yesterday, on Remembrance Sunday, the Sunday Telegraph  had an interesting and informative article about work in Norfolk to preserve survivi...
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Saturday, 8 November 2025

A Portuguese ship from 1533 Discovered in Namibia

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The  Indian Defence Review  reports in an online article about the discovery in Namibia of the Portuguese carrack the Bom Jesus,  and much o...

An Iron Age gold coin from Germany

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His garden maintenance  has an online account of the discovery of a gold quarter-stater from near Leipzig that is dated to the fourth centur...
Friday, 7 November 2025

The living and the dead of Medieval Edinburgh

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   I chanced upon a BBC News article which led me to other online sites which report on discoveries made in studying more than a hundred ske...

Identifying the site of the battle of the Granicus

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Researchers in Anatolia believe they can pinpoint the actual site of the battle of the Granicus, fought in 334BC, and the first of Alexander...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

A hoard of gold coins from the Dissolution era

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The ZME Science  and  BBC News  websites have reports about a significant hoard of gold coins found during lockdown in a garden at Milford o...
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A possible relic of the Gunpowder Plot

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Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and its failed attempt to blow up the King, Lords and Commons at the State Opening....
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Unearthing Hadrian’s Wall west of Carlisle

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Archaeologists in Cumberland have opened up at Drumburgh the foundations of part of the continuation of Hadrian’s Wall west of Carlisle alon...
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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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