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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 sub-series focuses on photographs of boys in School House since the 1940s.

This series relates to Hodge Wing, the pupils and staff and the history of the building. The series focuses on the early years as a boys' house.
Hodge Wing was a Boys’ day house, for Lower and Middle School. It became a girls’ house in the Winter term 1975, until the Spring term 1980 when the girls moved to Rushebrookes. Then it was re-opened for a small number of Seventh form girls in 1986.

This sub-series focuses on various items related to the history of Hodge Wing.

A record book, from Winter term 1949 to Winter term 1963, recording facts and figures concerning the School House boys, including Heads of House and Prefects, sports teams, roll calls, inter-house results, society and club members.

Two photographs (A and B) of the boys in School House in the academic year 1949-1950 under the Housemaster John Moore, with signatures at the back.

A letter from Simon Camamile to Jon and Kim Wills thanking them for the visit to School House and naming the rooms after his family.

This sub-series contains letters related to School House. The items relate to the 2004 naming ceremony of rooms in School House.

A letter from Jon Wills, Chairman of the Old Oakhamian Club, to Lewis Moody ('97) regarding attending the opening of a room named after him in School House.

A letter from B.A.F. Smith ('54) to Jon Wills, Chairman of the Old Oakhamian Club, thanking him for the visit to School House and the naming of the rooms after his family.