A Clerk of Oxford

BL Yates Thompson 3, f. 93v For the Feast of the Epiphany, here's a curiosity for you. There are lots of medieval carols about the Epiph...

Today is the first Sunday of Advent, and it’s a strange one. Public worship is currently banned in England, though that’s supposed to end in...

There’s a particular horror in the idea of dying alone, and the fear of a lonely death haunts many of us. But in one or way another, death i...

From my latest column for History Today : ‘One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other’, says the heroine of Jane Aus...

  If you were asked to guess the oldest town in Britain, you might not think of Abingdon. But the market town, which lies six miles south o...

'I wolde witen...' I wolde witen of sum wys wiht Witterly what this world were. Hit fareth as a foules fliht; Now is hit hen...

A post on Midsummer isolation and 'The Wife's Lament', which is a shortened version of something I originally posted on Patr...