Once I Was A Clever Boy
Showing posts with label Tudor Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tudor Ireland. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 August 2013

Armada reflections

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425 years ago today there occurred the battle of Gravellines, the key event in scattering the Spanish Armada, and forcing the Spanish flee...
Thursday, 24 May 2012

The coronation in Dublin

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Today is the 525th anniversary of the only coronation to have been held in Dublin - and a somewhat strange occasion it was.   Centre s...
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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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