Once I Was A Clever Boy
Showing posts with label Great War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great War. Show all posts
Monday, 3 March 2014

The possibilities for peace in 1914

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I saw that the BBC website has an interesting piece of informed speculation on what might have happened in the summer of 1914 had events t...

Buying books for the Oxford Union

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I am a long standing member of the Library committee at the Oxford Union - almost fifteen years in two sessions - and I was asked recentl...
Monday, 24 February 2014

Who was responsible for the Great War?

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A friend sent me the link to a piece on the BBC website where they had asked the opinions of ten historians as to whom they thought respon...
Thursday, 5 September 2013

The word of an Officer and Gentleman

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In several of the newspapers yesterday and today there are articles derived from Richard van Emden's new book Meeting the Enemy about...
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Thursday, 13 June 2013

The Great European Civil War

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Perusing the newspapers earlier I saw that the Daily Mail was not only critical of the Bishop of London for his comments about the ...
Monday, 14 January 2013

Commemorating the Great War

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I saw in yesterday's Sunday Times a report about discussions in Whitehall about events overthe coming years to commemorate the Great...
Sunday, 14 November 2010

Remembrance

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Here are a few thoughts, not necessarily all connected, about Remembrance and reflections on war in the last century. I am not a pacifist, ...
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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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