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20th century

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The Master Potter: L.F. Menzies-Jones and the Drawing Schools

Art has been studied at Eton for hundreds of years to different extents. 1763 saw…

24 March 2025

College Archives

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Love for the Earth

The Art and Writings of J.G. Lubbock These images are drawn from a body of…

05 December 2024

College Library

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Eton pays homage to the Maestro

A previous blogpost in 2021 celebrated Eton College’s acquisition of the Malcolm Arnold Archive in…

15 February 2023

College Library

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Negative Thoughts: glass plates in the Photographic Archives

Preserving the Victorian technology that captured a bygone Eton. If you’ve ever admired a photograph…

05 September 2022

College Archives

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The Malcolm Arnold Archive at Eton College

Celebrating 100 years of the ‘Rogue Genius’ College Library is delighted to announce its imminent…

21 October 2021

College Library

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A gathering of friends: the Festschrift and Moelwyn Merchant

In these strange times we have been looking for new ways to ‘gather’ friends together,…

23 June 2020

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Orwell at Eton

In the summer of 1917 Eric Arthur Blair signed the entrance book for Eton College….

25 May 2018

College Archives

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Planes on the playing fields: life at Eton in WW1

Four letters written by Dickie Harington [Sir Richard Dundas Harington, at Eton 1913-1919] have been…

28 July 2017

College Archives

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Aiming at the highest peaks: Wilfred Thesiger rewrites his first book

The explorer Wilfred Thesiger never intended to write a book about his travels, but in…

23 May 2017

College Library

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Dame Judi Dench’s rehearsal script

The coffee stained pale blue card cover of this item does not divulge what you…

30 January 2017

College Library

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Saving the Fourth

The College Archives tell the story of Eton. One big, ongoing story of Eton is…

04 June 2025

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