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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

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Ghostly goings on in the Library

“Some time ago I believe I had the pleasure of telling you a story …” …

31 October 2022

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Feats of skill: Eton’s trophy cups

On 26th and 27th June 2017, a unique event took place at Eton. For the…

12 October 2018

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Eton had talent!

It seems that Eton in the mid-1960s was a fertile source of creativity in contemporary…

16 August 2018

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How the murder of an Old Etonian fractured Anglo-Greek relations

  Abominable Eton On 25 October 1851, 13 year old Edward Henry Charles Herbert wrote…

31 October 2017

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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

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A distant prospect of Eton: or, on leaving presents

The poet Thomas Gray, most celebrated for his Elegy written in a country churchyard (1751),…

29 June 2017

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The origins of the Field Game

The first written rules for the game, from the Keepers’ Book, 1847 At Eton, boys…

31 January 2017

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Taking a cold shower

Image from the book of the Psychrolutes In 1828, a new society was founded in…

31 January 2017

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An instructional bandage

Formed in 1877, the St. John Ambulance Association is a charity medical First Aid and ambulance service, committed to the teaching of first aid to prevent the needless loss of life…

10 January 2017

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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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