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
Fait partie de Buildings and Estates
L.R. Shipsides
Oakham School Magazine - 1949-1954
Fait partie de Oakhamian Magazines
Bound copy of several Oakhamian Magazine; hard, black cover; with a library label and the code 8JNX
Oakham School
Fait partie de Houses
A School House record book, from 1949 to 1963. Contains house teams, rules, discussions, pupils, heads of houses and prefects.
Oakham School
Fait partie de Photographic and Art Collection
A photographic album of the school (but mainly of Wharflands house) from the Talbot-Griffiths era. Photographs of various staff members, buildings, House prefects, scouts, sporting photos (steeplechase, water-polo, rugby), House photos (Wharflands), Drama photos (Midsummer's Nights Dream and Macbeth 1953), The 1953 Elizabethan Fair, Form 4A photo (1951 and 1953), The choir, the Memorial Library opening, a christening, the visit to RCAF N.Luffenham Swindells, and the proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Oakham School