Once I Was A Clever Boy
Friday, 4 April 2014

The Memorial Service for Provost Nicholson

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Last Saturday afternoon I attended the Memorial Service for the Rev. Professor Ernest Nicholson, Provost of Oriel from 1990-2003, which was...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014

A corner of London that is forever Norway

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On Monday evening I went up to London to dine at the Norwegian Church in London, which is located in Rotherhithe. The invitation came ...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Coughs and sneezes spread diseases

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There are some very interesting archaeological conclusions from the examination of the skeletons of victims of the Black Death found near C...

April

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The April calendar page of the Très Riches Heures is attributed to Jean de Limbourg. The scene depicts a bethrothal before two...
Monday, 31 March 2014

Nine years peace and full communion

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Nine years ago today I was received into full peace and communion with the Catholic Church in the Oxford Oratory. As is my habit on this s...
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Saturday, 29 March 2014

Victims of the Battle of Towton

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Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Towton in 1461, fought in a snow storm on Palm Sunday and reputedly the bloodiest battle fought...
Friday, 28 March 2014

Fr Longenecker on the Ordinariates

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I saw on the Zenit website an interesting and forceful piece by Fr Dwight Longenecker about the place of the Anglican Ordinariates in the...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

What will Dame Edna say?

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I saw in the Times today that Tony Abbott, the staunchly monarchist Prime Minister of Australia, has announced the reintroduction of the ...
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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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