A Clerk of Oxford

Is it just me, or is the slang phrase 'what are the haps' pretty much a perfectly acceptable Middle English sentence? Because while...

... is the week A-level results come out. It's been a few years since anybody close to me was worrying about their results, but it'...

Psalm 84 O how amiable are thy dwellings : thou Lord of hosts! My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my h...

In the past few years, Sunday has become my favourite day of the week. I liked it when I was a child, too - we used to go to church, and the...

This has not been a good day. I just handed in four essays and have another two to finish for next week, and I seem to have lost the ability...

One of my particular interests - professionally as well as personally, if the next few years go to plan! - is the Danish conquest of England...

Gerard Manley Hopkins died on this day in 1889 . Pied Beauty is one of his most delightful (and accessible!) poems of praise. I was thinking...