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Over the past year, a major re-cataloguing project has transformed access to the Moulton-Barrett family…
13 November 2025
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In the 18th century mathematics was considered an ‘extra’ subject at Eton to be…
10 September 2025
This academic year began with the installation of a new Provost (chair of the board…
21 May 2025
Birds have always fascinated humans for their mastery of the sky. This blog presents a…
29 April 2025
4 November 2024 marked the centenary of the death of Old Etonian Edward James Hope…
16 February 2025
The Founder of Fort William College In August 1800 Lord Richard Colley Wellesley, an Etonian…
30 January 2025
The Art and Writings of J.G. Lubbock These images are drawn from a body of…
05 December 2024
“Right in the middle of everything sits the sun” wrote Copernicus in his work De…
13 June 2024
When a collection is as vast as that at Eton College, it becomes increasingly difficult…
08 March 2024
The ‘Venetorum nobilium liber’ (‘Book of the Venetian Nobility’, ECL MS 193), a 16th century…
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