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Showing posts with label Imperial Crown of India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imperial Crown of India. Show all posts
Wednesday, 3 June 2015

King George V and state ceremonial

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Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of King George Vin 1865. The view of him as a rather unimaginative blunt naval officer may des...
Sunday, 29 January 2012

The wrong crown?

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Yesterday afternoon my eye was caught in Baker Street tube station by a rather handsome poster advertising visits to see the Crown Jewels. T...
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Monday, 12 December 2011

The Imperial Crown of India

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Today is the centenary of the Coronation Durbar in Delhi of the King-Emperor George V. There is an online article about the Durbars of 1877,...
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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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