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Costume and Objects

  • COB
  • Subfonds
  • 1919 - 2018

This collection consists of the mainly the non-paper aspects of the archives collection. The collection is random in its make up but has a good material collection which highlights the changing nature of the school's uniform.

Items in this collection range in material type and stem from a variety of sources such as the Quatercentenary celebrations or items that were once used daily on the school grounds (such as building plaques or clock hands).

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Curriculum

  • CUR
  • Subfonds
  • 1926 - 2020

This collection highlights the depth and breadth of the school's curriculum and pupil's work. The drama and music sub-series are particularly detailed with their collection of production stills and programmes.

CUR/7 contains reports relating to the school's teaching and curriculum alongside timetables for lessons and exams, and comprehensive examination results for GCSE, A Level and IB.

Throughout the series in this collection, there is material relating to events and trips undertaken by various departments to increase the extra-curricular activities of pupils.

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A letter from Graham Smallbone to Parents

  • HEA-HEA/10-HEA/10/2-HEA/10/2/15
  • Item
  • 01/12/1992
  • Part of Headmasters

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Parents reviewing the Winter term 1992. Contents: The Future; Examination fees; Choral Society performance; Rutland - A Visitor's Guide; Three Special Requests; Responsibility for each other. Two pages A and B.

Graham Smallbone

A letter from Tony Little to Parents

  • HEA-HEA/11-HEA/11/2-HEA/11/2/4
  • Item
  • 07/2001
  • Part of Headmasters

A letter from the Headmaster Tony Little to Parents regarding a review of the Summer term 2001. Contents: Speech Day; Sporting achievements; Trips; Examinations results; Curriculum and Subject choices; Changes of Staff; Beginning of term dates; Dates further into the future.

Tony Little

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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Service of Thanksgiving for Richard Bull

  • HEA-HEA/9-HEA/9/4-HEA/9/4/5
  • Item
  • 23/01/2016
  • Part of Headmasters

Order of service of the Thanksgiving service for the life of Oliver Richard Silvester Bull in Chapel on 23 January 2016.

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Houses

  • HOU
  • Subfonds
  • 1905 - 2024

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

Deanscroft

  • HOU-HOU/10
  • Series
  • 1948 - 2017
  • Part of Houses

This series focuses on the boarding boys in Deanscroft, since its opening in 1948. The Headmaster himself was Housemaster, until 1971. Deanscroft boarding house was closed on Speech Day 1989, prior to its conversion into Stevens, a boarding house for girls. The boarding boys were moved to the newly built Haywoods House on Kilburn Road. The items include the complete set of house photographs and informal photographs showing boys around the house and on campus, as well as duty records.

Brian and Elizabeth Nicholls

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