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A letter from the Headmaster, John Buchanan, to Parents regarding the events of the Spring term 1958, including the hockey season, the works on the Sargant Laboratories, the raising of the minimum age of boarding and Speech Day. Two pages A and B.

A speech by J. D. Buchanan given at both Abingdon and Oakham. It discusses the value of morals and how they are passed between generations, the decline in respect for authority and how the younger generation need to control the environment now and not conquer it.

A speech by J. D. Buchanan talking about how we can improve our technological performance as a country and how we can use the same ideas and apply it to public schools. Adopting new knowledge and not having a lack of it.

Speech notes for the speech day on 1974. Handwritten annotations. Items A to F

A speech by J. D. Buchanan for Junior Service on the theme of images. Talks about how they can be dangerous things. How advertsing uses images and how even in school houses, they may have rivalries because they have certain views about how the others are. Discusses the message of the cross and what that symbolises.

Information on scholarships at a variety of institutions like Eton and how this affects Oakham. Items A to H

An academic report for Oakham school, proposes the introduction of scholarships to counter difficulties. Items A to K

This file focusses on various speeches given by John Buchanan during his headmastership and later. It is an almost complete collection of his sermons given at Oakham School since 1958.

A collection of letters received after publication of J.L.Barber's The story of Oakham School including one from Robert Fellowes in service to the Queen.

Operation Oakham by John Buchanan. It tells the story as to how Oakham became an independent school and allowed access to girls. Lists on expansion and revenue. Similar to 43, however the front page of this is signed by John Buchanan to Edward Leigh (7th Jan 1985). Also inside is a document entitled 'catalogue of school archive "Operation Oakham" - John Buchanan, Index by Terence Teanor Barber Room of Oakham School Library, 06/1996.