SCH
Reference code
SCH
Title
School records
Level
Fonds
Administrative / Biographical history
Henry VI allowed non-scholars to share the education provided. These boys, known as Oppidans as they boarded in the town, came to outnumber the scholars and after the Reformation, education became the prime purpose of the College.
Day to day management of the College is delegated to the Head Master in respect of educational matters.
Date
c.1700 - present
Extent & medium
large
Content description
Entry books signed by all boys have been preserved from 1791 onwards but otherwise little survives before the 19th century apart from sent-up for good scripts. Pop Journals begin in 1811 and in the last half of the century sport, society and house books. Head Masters' papers were not officially preserved until the late 20th century although private letters of Dr.Goodall and Dr. Keate have been preserved elsewhere and the papers of provosts who were formerly Head Masters contain some material. Files on boys and masters leaving are preserved from the 1950s but more fully from the 1960s. Increasing amounts of material produced by individual departments.
Provenance
Within the school
Physical characteristics
Varies
Conditions of access and use area
Personal material closed 100 years
Finding aids
Word lists; Dr Goodall's correspondence electronically catalogued
Location of this record in the archive hierarchy
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Number 5 of 6 at this Level
Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- Boys' papers, SCH B, (1700 -)
- Committee papers, SCH C, (1900 -)
- General, SCH G, (1850 -)
- Head Masters' papers, SCH HM, (18th century - 21st century)
- House Masters' papers, SCH HOUS, (1920s - 2020s)
- Lower Masters' papers, SCH LM, (1803 - 2007)
- Assistant masters' papers, SCH M, (1870 - 2009)
- Publications, SCH P, (1791 -)
- School Clerk's records, SCH SC, (1878 -)
- Society records, SCH SOC, (19th - 21st century)
- Sports records, SCH SP, (c.1798 - 2015)
- Teaching and curriculum, SCH T, (1850 -)