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 →
A year ago, the Macnaghten Library received the very moving gift of the First World War papers of four Old Etonian brothers: Reginald, Robert, Geoffrey and Wilfred Loyd. All four served in the Great War, but the archive is chiefly formed of papers relating to one of them, Geoffrey Loyd (FHR., H de J 1908).... 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 →
Towards the end of January, I took my first steps into School Yard as the new Graduate Trainee Archives Assistant. Throughout the next eight months, I gained invaluable experience of what it takes to be an archivist. COLL TD 06 (Title Deed) I was excited to get started on my two main cataloguing projects, the... Continue Reading →
Richard Porson (1759-1808) was an eminent classicist whose valuable contributions to classical scholarship were often characterised by his precise emendations and thorough understanding of Greek metre (the rhythmic structure of a verse). A critical edition of Euripides’ four plays (Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae and Medea) was one of Porson’s most famous publications. Line-engraving of Richard Porson... Continue Reading →
Foundation of the Eton Mission (1880-2000) In 1880, fuelled by religious and charitable fervour, a group of Masters and boys established a Christian Aid Mission for the working class community of Hackney Wick. Here, 6000 people lived in slum conditions in an area the size of the Eton Playing Fields. Funded by the vast network... Continue Reading →
Anglo-Norman French, not something I had ever really come across until hearing Dr. Heather Pagan’s talk at Magdalen College. In fairness, I had only come across the Anglo-Normans briefly when in primary school, which was a fair few years ago, and being about 7 years old, always presumed they spoke modern-day English. But of course... Continue Reading →
