Once I Was A Clever Boy
Thursday, 31 August 2023

St Vincent of Lérins

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The Pope was quoting recently St Vincent of Lérins, who died in the earlier part of the fifth century about the concept of the development o...
Wednesday, 30 August 2023

A Roman bridge across the Wye near Chepstow

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The Mail Online  has a report about the excavation in thick, and doubtless protective, river mud of the remains of a timber bridge construct...
Tuesday, 29 August 2023

The Beheading of St John the Baptist

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  Today is the feast of the beheading or decollation of St John the Baptist. Recent archaeological work in the Holy Land has identified what...
Monday, 28 August 2023

King Simeon II of the Bulgarians

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Today is the 80th anniversary of the accession of King Simeon II to the throne of Bulgaria.   H.M. The King of the Bulgarians Image: The Kin...
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The ‘Stola’ of the professed Knights of Malta

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The Liturgical Arts Journal  has an article about a piece of insignia unique to the solemnly professed Knights of Justice of the Sovereign M...
Saturday, 26 August 2023

King Philip II of France

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Writing yesterday about St Louis prompted me to the thought that this year is the 800th anniversary of the death of his grandfather, Kng Phi...
Friday, 25 August 2023

St Louis

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Today is the feast of St Louis - King Louis IX of France - who died on this day in 1270. St Louis Image: worldhistory.edu.com Queen Blanche ...
Wednesday, 23 August 2023

More on the appearance of Prince Charles Edward

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I wrote the other day about the new facial reconstruction of Prince Charles Edward as he might have appeared in 1745-6. The portrait 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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