Within the Archives is a podcast series where we look at aspects of Eton College life throughout the decades through our archival collections.
This month’s podcast discusses Eton’s teachers: Assistant Masters, known colloquially as Beaks, are central to a boy’s experience at the school.
From left to right:
Letter from Edward Lyttelton asking Miers to discuss science teaching with Sir Henry Roscoe, 9th June 1909 [COLL FELL 03 03]
Portrait of Edmond Warre [ Eton Collections | PA-A.142:94-2014 (etoncollege.com)]
Extract from ‘A Scottish Private Tutor at Eton in 1787, Etoniana No. 44, May 21 1928
By Beck Price, Archives Assistant