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Richard Bull
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Events

  • EVT
  • Subfonds
  • 1960 - 2021

This collection focuses on major events that have occurred to the school and its pupils. This includes the Quatercentenary celebrations and the school's reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Quatercentenary celebrations compromised of several events including the visit to the school by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Quatercentenary ball, and special productions to celebrate the recent opening of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

There is a detailed series on the school's Speech Day which includes a comprehensive list of programmes and award winners from the ceremony.

There is a excellent record of items showing how the school reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is general communication to parents and staff, information on the structure of face to face and distance learning teaching, and also an illuminating collection of photographs taken by Ms. Fernandez in 2021.

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Oliver Richard Sylvester Bull

This series focusses on the headmastership of Oliver Richard Sylvester Bull (1977-1984) and contains items relating to the life at School in the 1970s and 1980s, its staff and pupils. One of the files relates to Michael Stevens as Acting Headmaster for two terms in 1985.

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The Book of Rutland

  • HEA-HEA/9-HEA/9/8-HEA/9/8/2
  • Item
  • 1978
  • Part of Headmasters

A book (A) by Bryan Matthews, 'The Book of Rutland', given to Nigel Straton as a formal present for the Nelson Firth prize, awarded at Speech Day 1980 by the Headmaster Richard Bull. Enclosed is a letter (B) from Richard Bull to Nigel Straton; and a letter (C) from R.M. Chillery to the School, who found the book in a charity shop.

Bryan Matthews

Ephemera

  • HEA-HEA/9-HEA/9/8
  • File
  • 1978 - 2020
  • Part of Headmasters

This file contains various items created by Richard Bull or relating to his headmastership (1977-1984).

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