I am not the landlord of the historic Lamb and Flag pub on St Giles’ in the heart of Oxford. Owned by St John’s College and on its current site since 1613, the pub featured in episodes of Morse, was a favoured watering hole for Graham Greene in his student days, and might be theContinue reading “Charles Plater SJ and the Lamb and Flag”
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Advent: Hunger and Hope
Who would think that it’s just a mere twenty years since the first foodbank opened in Salisbury? Who could have thought that what was started in Salisbury would go on to become a service found in every town across the land? Who imagined back then that foodbanks would be the emergency service that gets millionsContinue reading “Advent: Hunger and Hope”
Foxwell-Buxton, anti-slavery campaigner and MP of Weymouth
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” Today the Church of England remembers the anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson. Here in the Diocese of Salisbury we might like to add Thomas Foxwell-Buxton, MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis between 1818 and 1837.In 1823 Foxwell-Buxton established the Society forContinue reading “Foxwell-Buxton, anti-slavery campaigner and MP of Weymouth”
Colin Brady 