Once I Was A Clever Boy
Sunday, 5 October 2025

Visigothic Eagle brooches from Spain

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Two early sixth century Visigothic brooches in the form of a pair of eagles are featured in an article from LiveScience.com.  The cloisonné ...

Excavating Leicester city centre

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Recent archaeological work in the historic urban centre of Leicester is outlined in an article from Artnet News .  More evidence has been re...

New evidence from the Shroud of Turin?

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The Zenit  website recently had a report about further research into the image on the cloth and suggesting that the front teeth of the lower...
Saturday, 4 October 2025

The Archbishop of Canterbury designate

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The announcement yesterday of the nomination of Dame Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury caught the headlines amongst so muc...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

The Restoration of the English Catholic Hierarchy in 1850

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Michaelmas Day was the 175th anniversary of the restoration of the English and Welsh territorial Hierarchy and their dioceses by Bl. Pope Pi...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Further thoughts on the origins of ‘Feudalism’

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Earlier this month I linked in two posts to articles from Medievalists.net  by Daniel Bachrach in which he explored the debate about the ori...

More for Michaelmas

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Following on from my post yesterday for Michaelmas here are two pieces from websites which were published yesterday. The New Liturgical Move...
Monday, 29 September 2025

St Michael the Archangel

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Today is Michaelmas, the principal feast of St Michael the Archangel. The Catholic Online  website says that St Michael has four main respon...
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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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