Earlier this evening here in Oxford city centre I saw a fairly thick-set bespectacled middle-aged man walking puposefully through the city...

So the Prime Minister and the Cabinet failed to persuade the Hous eof Commons to back military action in Syria. Mr Macaroon will not, at ...

Today is the 525th anniversary of the death in 1483 of King Louis XI of France.   As King he was contemporaneous with King Edward IV i...

Today is the feast of the Beheading or Decollation of St John the Baptist.  This has attracted artists over the centuries and I post t...

Yesterday afternoon and evening I went over to Chelmsford for the Solemn Profession of Br Stephen Morrison as a Norbertine. This took pla...

Today is the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII in 1313. There is an online life of him here ...

Today is the 745th anniverasary of the battle of Tagliacozzo in 1268 when the forces of Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily, defeated tho...

This week I have been working with an Oxford Summer School run by Second Spring, who are based here in the city, on the theme of Catholic ...