Consisting of a black tailcoat, waistcoat and pinstriped trousers, with a stiff white collar, an…
08 July 2024
Montem, at one time an initiation ceremony for boys, was a peculiar and spectacular Eton…
13 September 2023
Museum of Eton Life
Preserving the Victorian technology that captured a bygone Eton. If you’ve ever admired a photograph…
05 September 2022
College Archives
Abominable Eton On 25 October 1851, 13 year old Edward Henry Charles Herbert wrote…
31 October 2017
The first written rules for the game, from the Keepers’ Book, 1847 At Eton, boys…
31 January 2017
Image from the book of the Psychrolutes In 1828, a new society was founded in…
Recently digitised for the archives are two superbly illustrated notebooks kept by Guy Speir (HEL,…
Victorian chintz publisher’s bindings are quite a rare find because they were (some may say…
30 January 2017
College Library
The Art and Writings of J.G. Lubbock These images are drawn from a body of…
05 December 2024