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Red Books

  • RED-RED/1
  • Series
  • 1959 - 2024
  • Part of Red Books

A complete collection of Red Books - School lists and Calendars since 1959. Red books give information regarding pupils, tutor groups, teaching and support staff, school calendar and events, school rules, future trips and dates. Only two Red Books were never published, Summer term 2020 and Spring term 2021 as the UK was in lockdown (COVID-19) and pupils were not at School and had lessons online.

Oakham School

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.

Oakham School

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.

Oakham School

Buildings

This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.

Oakham School

Cricket pavilions

A collection of documents, including photographs and commemorative plaques, relating to the School's cricket pavilions on Doncaster Close since the 19th century.

L.R. Shipsides

A letter from Tony Little to Nigel Richardson

  • HEA-HEA/11-HEA/11/2-HEA/11/2/18-HEA/11/2/18/1
  • Item
  • 01/03/2002
  • Part of Headmasters

A letter from the Headmaster Tony Little to Nigel Richardson, Headmaster of the Perse School, regarding the Golden Jubilee and sending photographs of the Queen's visit in 1984.

Tony Little

Old Oakhamian Magazine (Bound)

A complete collection of bound books, gathering Old Oakhamian Magazines copies, from 1899 to 2002. Some books may contain issues of the Magazine that would be otherwise missing in the collection.

Oakham School

Photographs

This file focusses on photographs of the Computer block throughout the years.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

The Computer block

A collection of photographs of the Computer Block since its construction in 1982. The building was built as part of the Quatercentenary Development Plan and was officially opened on 11 July 1984 by Lord Kings Norton.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

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