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Snow is falling, all around me!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, from all of us in the…

05 December 2025

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From Jamaica to Wimpole Street

Over the past year, a major re-cataloguing project has transformed access to the Moulton-Barrett family…

13 November 2025

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When Mathematics wasn’t in the curriculum 

  In the 18th century mathematics was considered an ‘extra’ subject at Eton to be…

10 September 2025

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Provost Wotton’s books

This academic year began with the installation of a new Provost (chair of the board…

21 May 2025

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On the wing

Birds have always fascinated humans for their mastery of the sky. This blog presents a…

29 April 2025

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An ‘illicit’ collection of textbooks

The Founder of Fort William College In August 1800 Lord Richard Colley Wellesley, an Etonian…

30 January 2025

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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

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We shall place the Sun himself at the centre of the Universe

“Right in the middle of everything sits the sun” wrote Copernicus in his work De…

13 June 2024

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Surprises in books

When a collection is as vast as that at Eton College, it becomes increasingly difficult…

08 March 2024

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Book of Venetian Nobility

The ‘Venetorum nobilium liber’ (‘Book of the Venetian Nobility’, ECL MS 193), a 16th century…

08 March 2024

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Over the past year, a major re-cataloguing project has transformed access to the Moulton-Barrett family…

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