Once I Was A Clever Boy
Monday, 24 November 2025

The 150th anniversary of St Aloysius Church Oxford

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Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the opening of the church of St Aloysius in Oxford. On that day in 1875 Bishop William Bernard Ullath...
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Friday, 21 November 2025

The reappearance of the Florentine Diamond

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A fortnight ago there was the really amazing announcement by the Imperial House of Austria that, contrary to widespread belief, one of the H...
Thursday, 20 November 2025

A monument well worthy of conservation in Marlborough

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I came upon an online report about work to conserve and enhance a remarkable historic monument in Marlboroughin Wiltshire. The Mound, as it ...
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Two early Christian mosaics from Turkey and Israel

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A regular reader of this blog very kindly sent me the link to a Daily Mail  online article about two mosaic floors which have been uncovered...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Evolution and transformation in latex Roman Germany

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Two recent archaeological investigations in Germany have yielded interesting information about the changes in society from the later fifth c...
Monday, 17 November 2025

An eighth century gold medallion from Norfolk

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The discovery of an apparently eighth century Anglo-Saxon gold pendant near Swaffham in Norfolk is not only further evidence of the rich dep...
Monday, 10 November 2025

Conserving pillboxes from WWI

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Yesterday, on Remembrance Sunday, the Sunday Telegraph  had an interesting and informative article about work in Norfolk to preserve survivi...
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Saturday, 8 November 2025

A Portuguese ship from 1533 Discovered in Namibia

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The  Indian Defence Review  reports in an online article about the discovery in Namibia of the Portuguese carrack the Bom Jesus,  and much o...
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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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