A Clerk of Oxford

Chaucer was right: when spring comes, 'then longen folk to go on pilgrimages'. It isn't April yet, but we're having what th...

Gregory the Great, from a late 12th/early 13th-century English manuscript ( BL Royal 6 B II, f. 1 ) This is a Middle English translatio...

St Felix at Fritton Today is the feast of St Felix , who according to Bede introduced Christianity to the kingdom of East Anglia in the...

I feel I've been posting a lot about the passage of time, which is something which I think about pretty much constantly (it's sort o...

A while ago I posted some extracts from a rather eccentric Victorian history of Fordwich in Kent, A History of the Town and Port of Fordw...