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Further travels in enemy territory: Oxford

Oct 16, 2020

anniversaries, buildings, culture, humour, religion, television reviews

Ashmolean Museum, Beccles, Bocarno Prison, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christ Church Cathedral Oxford., Crick, DNA, Dorothy Hodgkin, eagle and child, Endeavour Morse, football, Four Candles, Headington, heresy, Hugh Latimer, J.R.R. Tolkein, Last Bus to Woodstock, Manor Ground, Martyrs’ Memorial, Matilda, Nicholas Ridley, Oxford, Oxford High School for Boys, Oxford Prison. Oxford Castle, Oxford United, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Ronnie Barker, St. Michael at the north gate, The Wench is Dead, Thomas Cranmer, Watson

Oxford (Oxenford) is obviously a compact and historic city although visiting specific buildings at short notice is difficult at present. Christ Church Cathedral (England’s smallest for the largest diocese) and the Ashmolean Museum (currently organising a Rembrandt exhibition) were unbookable whilst the Pitt-Rivers Museum didn’t open until September. I went for the Bank Holiday weekend…
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Aug 17, 2018

anniversaries, archaeology, art, buildings, genealogy, Science

“Princes”, books, Crick, Edward V, Elizabeth Roberts, game shows, Garden Tower, Glenn Moran, Henry Pole the Younger, John Ashdown-Hill, Leicester dig, Michael Miles, mtDNA evidence, radio carbon dating, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sir Alec Jeffreys, Take Your Pick, The Private Life of Edward IV, Watson, Westminster Abbey

Now that John Ashdown-Hill’s new book (bottom left) on the Tower of London and the “Princes” has been published, we are in a position to know Edward V’s mtDNA, which he would share with his brothers and maternal cousins such as Jane or Henry Pole the Younger. Progress has been made since Moran’s appendix to…

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Further travels in enemy territory: Oxford

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