A Clerk of Oxford

It's the 5th August, which seems like a good excuse to revisit a topic I wrote about some years ago: the fun and games of medieval Linco...

Birds in a tree, from the Eadwine Psalter Cambridge, Trinity College, R.17.1 , f. 275v It's very hot at the moment. That's my only ...

Three book-related links, if you'll excuse the plug! My latest piece for History Today is now available to read online at this link ...

My book, Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England , is officially published this week - today, in fact, which is (entirel...

My latest column for History Today can now be read online here . It's about the 1944 Powell and Pressburger film A Canterbury Tale ,...

Publication day is fast approaching for my book , Dragon Lords , which explores a range of medieval legends about the Vikings in England....

The spring has come late this year, but it has come at last. As I was admiring some newly-sprung blossom yesterday (that's it in the ...