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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.

This series relates to Junior Day girls of Ancaster. The house was built in 1974, as part of the new Jerwoods Campus for the Lower School. Most of the collection is made of the House photographs since the first year of Ancaster, as well as informal photograph of the girls in house events and sports competition.

Four print-outs of photographs of Form 2 girls and boys in the Lower School gardens at the Leavers' barbecue on 24 June 2003.

Six print-outs of photographs of the Ancaster girls playing in the 2005 Interhouse Netball competition, which they lost.

A programme of the Ancaster Performing Arts Soiree in aid of Cancer Research on 22 May 2006, with a list of the performers and musical numbers.

Five print-outs of photographs of Lower School boys and girls sailing in Rutland Water in June 2006.

This sub-series focuses on the day-to-day running of Ancaster house and mostly contains house diaries. Items give information regarding the house, achievements of the girls and house events.

The Ancaster house diary for the years 1983 to 1989 with notes on the everyday life of the house, absences, house events, school information about the girls (Pastoral), letters to/from parents and house sports teams.

The Ancaster house diary for the years 1998 to 2006 with notes on the everyday life of the house, absences, house events, school information about the girls (Pastoral), letters to/from parents and house sports teams and results, programmes of house and school events.

A collection of loose flyers, emails, posters and programmes from the Ancaster Diary. Girls from the house are often circled or highlighted.