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This file focusses on letters received/sent by the Headmaster Graham Smallbone during his headmastership (1985-1996).

Photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by members of staff throughout the years.

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Rushebrookes house. It was named after the first School Headmaster, Robert Rushbrooke. The first girls moved in in the Spring term 1980 but the building was officially open only on 22 November 1980. This series contains items related to the daily life of the girls in school and in house, as well as house photographs, mostly from the 2010s.

This sub-series focuses on the day-to-day running of Rushebrookes house. Items give information regarding the house officials, the staff duty rotas, and the music, sports and activities lists.

A group of print-outs of photographs of house events and trips in the Spring and Summer terms 2022.

A photograph of Rushebrookes' Fifth Form hockey team competing in the 2020 Girls' Interhouse hockey competition.

An A1 poster with photographs of six house events in the Spring term 2020: a boarders' trip to Laser tag; Rushebrookes' Junior Netball team competing in the 2020 Interhouse Netball competition; Quiz Night organised by the prefects; the Choir dinner; biscuit decorating; a Fifth form film night with Buchanans house.

An A1 poster with photographs of five house events in the Spring term 2020: a Fifth Form tutor outing to Wildwood in town after their mock exams; a Third form social with Buchanans; Rushebrookes Senior Netball team competing in the 2020 Interhouse Netball; Quiz night organised by the prefects; Rushebrookes girls on a paintballing trip at the weekend.

A group of slides of the school during John Buchanan's era, with an index of the slides. Collected by David Morgan and the Photographic society for the Headmaster to take to the United States to promoted the school overseas.

A group of 430 slides taken by Jim Bride for the project "Sights and Sounds of Oakham School" between 1975 and 1976. Slides show staff and pupils in houses, on campus and in lessons, buildings, sporting events and other aspects of everyday life at school.