Part of Staff
Jon Wills' school report in Easter term 1970.
Oakham School
Part of Staff
Jon Wills' school report in Winter term 1970.
Oakham School
Three generations of Wharflands Housemasters
Part of Houses
A photograph of three generations of Wharflands Housemasters an their wives: Val Harvey, John Barber and Malcolm Hardy.
Roger Blackmore
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.
Oakham School
Part of Headmasters
Notes from John Barber to Michael Stevens regarding the celebrations of the 450th anniversary of the birth of Archdeacon Robert Johnson.
John Lewis Barber
A letter from Frederick H.G Percy to John Barber
Part of History of the School
A letter from Frederick H.G. Percy, Honorary Archivist of Whitgift School, to John Barber, regarding old School Houses in various school and enclosing his research on Schoolhouses' dimensions in English schools.
Frederick H.G. Percy
A letter from Peter North to John Barber
Part of History of the School
A letter from Peter North, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, to John Barber regarding his book "The Story of Oakham School".
Peter North
A letter from Geoffrey Lockwood to John Barber
Part of History of the School
A letter from Geoffrey P. Lockwood to John Barber sharing memories on his time at school, prompted by an article in The Telegraph.
Geoffrey P. Lockwood
Letters regarding the sales of "The Story of Oakham School"
Part of History of the School
Two letters, from Trevor Case and Roger Blackmore to John Barber regarding the sums produced by the sales of signed copies of "The Story of Oakham School" to the Quatercentenary Appeal.
Trevor Case
A letter from A.L. Stacey to John Barber
Part of History of the School
A letter from A.L .Stacey to John Barber congratulating him on finishing his book "The Story of Oakham School".
A.L. Stacey