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This collection focuses on the staff who have worked for Oakham School over the years. Material focuses on not only training and teaching, but staff wellbeing, pay and benefits.

There are two series which focus on notable members of staff from the school's history: Jon Wills and Brian Welford. Material for these staff members have been collected by themselves and other members of staff.

Recruitment series includes jobs descriptions for various positions, both teaching and support staff, in the school.

There is a strong collection of policies an guidance for teachers in completing the many administrative and teaching jobs expected.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

This sub-series relates to the history of Old School, oldest building of Oakham School, in Cutts Close park. It is made of a collection of photographs and art work; of newspaper cuttings and letters, mostly relating to the debate concerning the refurbishment of the building and preserving the frescoes painted by Mary Sargant Florence.

This file focusses on the organisation of various Oakham Art Festivals in the early 1990s.

Nine letters between Graham Smallbone, Bryan Waites, Stephen Garnett and Nicholas Bomford regarding the 450th anniversary of the birth of Archdeacon Robert Johnson.

Seven letters regarding the opening of the Rutland Crown Court in Oakham Castle on 13 January 1992.

Two letters between the Headmaster Graham Smallbone and Idris Evans at Oakham Town Council regarding the Official Street Plan in September 1986.

This series focusses on the headmastership of Tony Little (1996-2002) and contains items relating to the life at School in the 1990s and early 2000s, its staff and pupils.

A letter from R.D. Dudley, Under-Sheriff of Rutland, to the Headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding The Honourable Mr Justice Owen attending the Court Opening in the Castle in January 1992, a service and the participation of the choir. Two pages A and B.

A letter from Idris Evans, Town Clerk at Oakham Town Council, to the Headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding the revised official Street Plan in September 1986.