Once I Was A Clever Boy: Russian revolution

Once I Was A Clever Boy

Showing posts with label Russian revolution. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Russian revolution. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Abdication of Emperor Nicholas II

Today is the centenary (NS) of the abdication of the Emperor Nicholas II in 1917. Having initially abdicated in favour of his son Tsesare...

Friday, 16 November 2012

Former People

The Book of the Week read on Radio 4 this week has been Douglas Smith's Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy pub...

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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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