Once I Was A Clever Boy
Sunday, 19 July 2026

The reburial of Richard Duke of York in 1476 - Introduction

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550 years ago, between July 21st and July 30th 1476, in an elaborate set of funeral ceremonies the bodies of Richard Duke of York, father of...
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The Vatican, the SSPX and the war of words

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The Internet allows everyone to have their say and share their opinion about everything, and the rupture between the Vatican and the SSPX is...
Saturday, 18 July 2026

The Spanish Civil War ninety years on

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Today is the ninetieth anniversary of the out break on the Spanish Civil War. What began as a largely unsuccessful military coup against the...
Friday, 17 July 2026

Anglo-Danish rivalry in style and grooming in 1002

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The Fake History Hunter has another worthwhile study on Substack  about English attitudes to the Danish community in the country in the lead...

Irish Curses

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Substack  has an insightful and lively illustrated post from Gillian Kenny about the long and colourful tradition of cursing in Ireland. Alt...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026

A former Anglican reflects on his path to Rome

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A friend recently shared with me an article from the US Catholic journal The Lamp  written by Dr Robin Ward who was until last year Principa...
Monday, 13 July 2026

The life of a Medieval English royal nun

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I recently came upon an interesting, and indeed entertaining, account of the life of Mary, one of the daughters of King Edward I, who lived ...
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Saturday, 11 July 2026

Yesteryear in Parliament

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  As we come to the end of the Parliamentary session it is time to look back at what was achieved, at the pointers to new ways of doing thin...
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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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