As a year passes since the pandemic changed the lives of everyone, many people are looking back to last Easter to see what has changed. The record of the Eton College Chronicle however, affords us an opportunity to look even further back and see what was happening during the Easter Half and Easter Holidays for... Continue Reading →
Within the Archives is a podcast series where we look at aspects of Eton College life throughout the decades through our archival collections. This month's podcast discusses Eton's teachers: Assistant Masters, known colloquially as Beaks, are central to a boy’s experience at the school. Teacher's Podcast Teachers podcast transcriptDownload From left to right: Letter from... Continue Reading →
Within the Archives is a podcast series where we look at aspects of Eton College life throughout the decades through our archival collections. Following last months inaugural episode on school exams, this month's podcast discusses Eton's student societies. Societies podcast Societies podcast transcript - FebruaryDownload 1897 Chronicle - Article on the Literary and Scientific Society1933... Continue Reading →
View of Eton College from the North, c.1640-60 Eton Collections | FDA-P.411-2010 (etoncollege.com) The conflict most commonly known as the English Civil War(s) lasted from 1642 until 1651, and saw the execution of King Charles I in 1649. It was a conflict fuelled by political and religious differences and led to fundamental questioning of the respective roles... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the first episode of ‘Within the Archives’, a new podcast series where we look at aspects of Eton College life throughout the decades through our archival collections. This month we start by looking at school exams. School Exams podcast exams-podcast-transcriptDownload An article from the Chronicle on how to avoid Trials (Issue No. 3247,... Continue Reading →
St Andrew's Day traditions viewed through the Eton College Collections St Andrew's Day, celebrated in the Michaelmas half, has become one of the two biggest holidays marked at Eton College, the other being the Fourth of June which takes place in the summer. (In one of Eton's quirks, they are not held on the actual... Continue Reading →
This year Remembrance Sunday commemorations will be fairly different to tradition as the nation observes social distancing. Despite restrictions on crowds and gatherings indoors, there are many socially distanced events scheduled to honour the service and sacrifices of the armed forces, and their communities, in conflict. There are a number of holdings in the Eton... Continue Reading →
My name is Beck Price and I am an Archives Assistant at Eton College Archives. My role involves working on helping to transcribe and catalogue parts of the collection, as well as assisting with the rehousing of objects and general enquiries made to the archives. I will also be helping to contribute more to the... Continue Reading →
The Verey Gallery at Eton recently hosted the Eton Choirbook and provided the relevant history surrounding it. One of the display cabinets encased an Illumination (below) which included an image of the founder of Eton College, Henry Vl, aged 23 and his bride Margaret of Anjou, only 15 years of age. Detail of a leaf... Continue Reading →
1882 FA Cup Final programme https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/misc-oefc-03-02 One of the more rare items of sports memorabilia in the collections is the earliest known FA Cup final programme. Dating from 1882, it records the match of the Old Etonians versus Blackburn Rovers, when the Etonians would win the FA Cup for the second and last time. The... Continue Reading →
