A Clerk of Oxford

Christ in Quarantine (British Library, Royal MS 1 D X, f. 52v) Strange new events call for new vocabulary, and over the last few weeks ...

The Virgin Mary in a fourteenth-century manuscript, BL Royal MS 6 E VII Part 2, f. 479 Back in Advent, I revisited the poems of the 15t...

The Adoration of the Magi, British Library, Add. 18850, f. 24v Two carols for Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. The visit of the ...

In the Christmas edition of the Catholic Herald, I've written a short piece about the medieval carol 'Lullay, Myn Lyking' (...

Annunciation ( BL Add. 29433, f. 20 ) Here's an Advent poem from a collection of carols which was compiled by James Ryman, Francisc...

The ossuary at St Leonard's, Hythe All Souls, and a rainy November day in the season of remembrance. The three-day season of Hallowtide...

My latest column for History Today can be read online here . Here's a taste: If you recognise the type of town museum I mean, you...