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A copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Oakham School Enterprises Ltd.

Three booklets from the Accountants Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. to the Trustees on the Elizabethan Trust, the Development Trust and the School Accounts.

This series contains various account books, cash books fees books and ledgers recording pupils fees and other charges, incomes and expenditures, staff wages and salaries throughout several years.

A prospectus promoting studying at Oakham School in 1937. Contents: Trustees & Staff; Foundation & History; The School today; Situation & Surroundings; Premises & Equipment; School Terms, Holidays, Timetable; Chapel Services, Religious Instruction; Curriculum; Libraries; Reports; Boarding Houses; School House, Wharflands, The Junior House; Clothes; Diet & Tuck Boxes; Health; Absence & Leave; Games; Physical Education; O.T.C.; Scouts; Activities outside the classroom; Entry, Fees, Remission of Fees for absence; Optional Payments, Extras; Pocket Money; Scholarships; Leaving Scholarships; Notice of leaving; Expenses; Appointments with the Headmaster; Day Boys; Publications; Old Oakhamian Club. Nine double-pages A to I. Enclosed are a form of application for admission (J) and a clothes list for the Junior House (K).

A press cutting regarding the daily life at Oakham School in the 1840s, based on James Padley's letters home and regarding John Barber's article "Oakham School 140 years ago".

A photograph of players of the boys' Cricket 1st team. Date '1887' is written (modern addition) but does not coincide with names of the pupils on the photograph and their leaving year. Date is now thought to be in 1882. Some names written on the item are not on the register and have been amended below in 'Access Points'.

A collection of documents, mainly photographs, of Jerwoods, the Lower School Campus. In 1962 the School purchased the old vicarage on Burley Road, named Peterborough House. In 1967, the Junior boys moved into their new boarding house. In 1974, new houses were erected around Peterborough House. The duo-decagonal Lincoln House for boarding girls was designed by Tom E. Wilson and built by George Duxbury and Sons, the architect and contractors of Round House. Behind it was built the Coleman Building, named after Leslie Coleman, into which Sargants (Day boys) and Ancaster (Day girls) moved in 1975. On 14 May 1974, John Jerwood unveiled the foundation stone and the Junior School was officially opened on 23 November. The houses comprised small dormitories with bunk beds, common rooms, a junior library and playing areas. The Coleman Building was linked to Lincoln House and Peterborough House.

A 'With Compliments' note from Thomas E. Wilson, the architect of the Jerwoods Campus.

This file focuses on correspondence asking/ giving John Barber permission to use certain material in his book.

A letter from Neville Stack, Editor of the Leicester Mercury, to John Barber giving him permission to print the picture of The Duke of Edinburgh in his upcoming publication.