A Clerk of Oxford

Singing a Requiem, BL Arundel 302, f.77v (English, 15th century) For all Cristen saulys pray we: Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine. ...

Alfred at Wantage, his birthplace Today is the anniversary of the death in 899 of Alfred the Great, one of the most attractive figures ...

I have a large number of half-written posts sitting in my drafts folder at the moment, mostly consisting of photographs for which I can...

CUL MS. Ee 3 59, f. 5 Today is the anniversary of an eleventh-century battle in which the English were routed by an invading army, the flow...

When I was at primary school in the mid-1990s, we used to sing a hymn of which I now remember only the first verse: January brings the sno...

Now the deys sterre in hys hevynly spere, ffresche as febus, a peryth in owr syght, Whos bryghtnes gladeth all owre emyspere, Chasyng a w...

In the green and gallant Spring, Love and the lyre I thought to sing, And kisses sweet to give and take By the flowery hawthorn brake. ...