Once I Was A Clever Boy
Thursday, 30 January 2025

The Royal Martyr

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Today is the anniversary of the regicide of King Charles I in 1649. A devotional image of the Royal Martyr from the late seventeenth or earl...
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Heligoland

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If you are someone to whom the name of Heligoland merely recalls the Shipping Forecast - it is indicativecof a certain kind of desperation w...

Identifying the Bosham home of King Harold II

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GBNews  reported yesterday the findings of an archaeological investigation at Bosham, on the shore of Chichester Harbour in West Sussex, whi...
Sunday, 26 January 2025

More on French Royalism

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Image: Wikipedia  I have posted twice in recent days about commemorations in France of King Louis XVI, and of course once ventures onto the ...

Sta Maria Novella in Florence

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Recently I came upon a video about the great Dominican church of Sta Maria Novella in Florence. It can be seen at  Santa Maria Novella - Flo...
Friday, 24 January 2025

Robert Waterton

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Last Friday was the six hundredth anniversary of the death at his manor house at Methley in the West Riding of Yorkshire of Robert Waterton....

Commemorating King Louis XVI

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Since I posted about the Solemn Requiem celebrated fo King Louis XVI on the anniversary of his death and linked to the video of the Mass I h...
Wednesday, 22 January 2025

A thirteenth century ring from Fishlake in Yorkshire

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Quite by chance I came upon an online article from 2023 on the BBC News website about the purchase for Doncaster Museum of a medieval ring ...
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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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