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Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls Michael Stevens
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Staff

  • STF
  • Subfonds
  • 1878 - 2021

This collection focuses on the staff who have worked for Oakham School over the years. Material focuses on not only training and teaching, but staff wellbeing, pay and benefits.

There are two series which focus on notable members of staff from the school's history: Jon Wills and Brian Welford. Material for these staff members have been collected by themselves and other members of staff.

Recruitment series includes jobs descriptions for various positions, both teaching and support staff, in the school.

There is a strong collection of policies an guidance for teachers in completing the many administrative and teaching jobs expected.

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Buchanans (Orchard Close)

  • HOU-HOU/9
  • Series
  • 1977 - 2011
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding girls in Orchard Close (built in 1929), later Buchanans House. It became a girls' boarding house in early October 1975 and Michael Stevens was its first Housemaster. It was renamed Buchanans House in Summer 1977, following the retirement of Headmaster J.D. Buchanan. Work was completed on Buchanans house in 1982 and the extension was ready for occupation in January 1983. The house was first a Seventh Form house and transitioned to a Middle School house in the 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Chapmans (Junior House)

  • HOU-HOU/7
  • Series
  • 1911 - 2010
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Junior House/Chapmans pupils and staff since its opening in 1910. It first comprised the Junior Department with facilities for boys boarders and classrooms. The house was renamed Chapmans in September 1960, after Frank Emerson Chapman, first Housemaster of the Junior House; it became a Senior House. Most of the series is made of photographs, house photographs as well as more informal photographs.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/9-HOU/9/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1977 - 2003
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of girls in Orchard Close and Buchanans House, mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s. It also contains photographs of the Sixth Form cohort.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Whole Staff Photographs

  • STF-STF/9-STF/9/1
  • File
  • 1957 - 2002
  • Part of Staff

This file focusses on teaching staff photographs, since John Buchanan's headmastership. More recent photographs include both teaching and support staff.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

Photographs

  • STF-STF/9
  • Series
  • 1891 - 2002
  • Part of Staff

This series focusses on photographs of teaching and support staff throughout the years. The bulk of the collection is individual photographs of staff from the 1990s.

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Ephemera

  • HOU-HOU/12-HOU/12/2
  • Sub-Series
  • 1989 - 2000
  • Part of Houses

This sub-file contains various photographs of the girls and tutors of Stevens House since its opening in 1989. Most of the photographs were gathered in photograph albums by the Housemistress.

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Johnsons

  • HOU-HOU/6
  • Series
  • 1959 - 1997
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the Day boys' house of Johnsons, throughout its history (1959-1997). The collection is mostly made of house photographs and teams' photographs, as well as some administrative records.

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House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/6-HOU/6/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1966 - 1993
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of the Day Boys in Johnsons House from the 1960s to the 1980s. The collection is complete from 1979 to 1993.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

House Photographs

  • HOU-HOU/7-HOU/7/1
  • Sub-Series
  • 1911 - 1981
  • Part of Houses

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys, living in Junior House/Chapmans since its inception. The bulk of the collection gathers photographs from the 1950s to 1980s.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

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