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My latest column for History Today is now available to read online at this link: Learning in Lincoln . Here's a taste: Some time ...

Virgin and Child, from a 15th-century Book of Hours ( BL Add. 50001, f. 119v ) Mary hath borne alone The Son of God in throne. That ...

Grimbald Gospels, made in Canterbury in the 11th century, BL Add. 34890, f. 115 This is the last section of the Anglo-Saxon poem inspir...

The Trinity, with Mary ('Ælfwine's Prayerbook', BL Cotton Titus D XXVI I, f.75v) In the last week before Christmas, I'd lik...

Readers of this blog may be interested in watching this series of talks given recently in Oxford (in connection with the Bodleian Library...

My column in the November issue of History Today can be read online here (and do buy the magazine - lots of good stuff in it this month...

As I lay in winter’s night, In a droupnynge before the day, [in uneasy sleep, before the dawn] Methought I saw a selly sight, [marvello...