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Minutes of a Parent/Teacher Committee meeting held on 1 February 1986 in Old Hall. Contents: Matters arising from the minutes; Parent/Teacher Presentation; Aims and Objectives of the Committee; Correspondence; Representatives for Summer term 1986; Any Other Business; Date of the next meeting.

Minutes of an OSEL meeting held on 25 October 1983 at the Headmaster's house. Contents: Minutes; Matters arising; Medical Congress, January 1984; Chess Tournament; Other April events; Activity Holidays 1984; Computer Weekends; Catering budgets and menus. Seventeen pages A to Q.

A book compiling the minutes of the Trustees' Financial Committee meetings.

This collection draws together material produced for and by the marketing department of Oakham School. Particular strengths of the collection include press cuttings and publication material (prospectuses, handbooks, maps etc.).

Press cuttings from multiple local and national newspapers have been collected together by marketing staff, gathering together news of Old Oakhamians.

Publications contain material produced for new admissions into the school and contain detailed information about uniform, curriculum, pastoral care, and general daily life of the school.

A list of families of Oakham School teaching and admin staff in 1985, with names of staff, their spouse, and their children. Six pages A to F.

This collection covers the history of all the libraries of Oakham School as well as the creation and daily working of the archives.

The Library series has material relating to each regeneration of the library (Smallbone, War Memorial). There is a rich photographic record of the opening and daily running of the Smallbone Library accompanied by administrative documents such as catalogues.

Under the Archives series, material cover correspondence with external readers and research into the history of the school and its pupils. There are also archive committee meeting minutes which show the evolution of the archives from its inception in 2010.

Two letters from the Headmsater, Graham Smallbone, to, respectively, Mr and Mrs Ham (A) and Mr and Mrs Wilkinson (B), related to Henrietta Lea's accident.

Two letters (A and B) from Graham Smallbone, Headmaster, and John Buchanan and Rev Terence Treanor asking Old Oakhamians to support the construction of the new library as part of the 1993 Development Plan. One letter was sent to O.O. who left in 1965 or earlier; one letter was sent to O.O. who left in 1966 or later.

An invitation from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone and his wife Dorothea to Peter Witchell at a service in the School Chapel on 24 May 1986.

This collection contains material relating to the history of the houses and their pupils. Each series is focused on a different house and many contain rich and detailed photographic records of houses year by year. Some houses are more detailed than others.

Other highlights of this collection include house handbooks, which help to induct a pupil into a house and its daily routine; photographs of daily life, including house events and leisure time; and administrative documents such as house diaries which record the calendar of house events, achievements of pupils, and accounts of incidents.

Included in this sub-fonds are houses which are no longer in existence such as Johnsons and Ruddles.