Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Abdication of Emperor Nicholas II
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Today is the centenary (NS) of the abdication of the Emperor Nicholas II in 1917. Having initially abdicated in favour of his son Tsesare...
Animating the Antikythera mechanism
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The Lead Education Officer at the Museum of the History of Science here in Oxford shared this piece about the Antikythera Mechanism which m...
Friday, 10 March 2017
Anglican squabbles
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The BBC News website has had a couple of reports about the decision of Philip North, the Anglican suffragan Bishop of Burnley to withdraw h...
Whalley Abbey martyrs of 1536-7
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The blog Supremacy and Survival last year had these posts about Pilgrimage of Grace martyrs from Whalley Abbey in Lancashire, which I am r...
Saturday, 4 March 2017
Imperial gifts to British godchildren
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The news agency Royal Central has the following story: ...
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
March
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The Château de Lusignan The landscape is the work of the courtly painter, the figures are by the Master of the Shadows Image :Wi...
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
A poetic reflection for Shrovetide and Lent
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Today I found myself quoting T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" from the " Four Quartets" Looking it up online it see...
A Lenten thought
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Last night I had a slightly curious thought - I rather doubt if I would call it a vision, and I don't think it was a dream - that was p...
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