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The King's School Archives

The King’s School Archives contain documents, photographs and miscellaneous items documenting our 500 year history, such as:

  • Past uniforms
  • Governors’ Minutes Books and various ledgers
  • Admission Registers (1837 onwards) – with indexes
  • Photographs – full school, sports etc.
  • Combined Cadet Force band equipment
  • Miscellaneous Examination and test results
  • Staff records
  • Past copies of Granthamian magazine
  • Yearly school lists
  • Maps and plans of the school
  • Transcripts and photographs of the Old School carvings
  • Miscellaneous items deposited by old pupils
  • Copies of the WWI and WWII memorials
  • Copy of Fox’s Deed, 1528
  • Items relating to Isaac Newton and Bishop Wand
  • Newton 350th Anniversary Dinner photographs

We welcome any contributions or donations to our archives, particularly pre World War II items. Visitors by prior appointment only.

Information

The information sections  have been prepared by our volunteer School Archivists.

  1. 1. Earliest Days
    PDF File
  2. 2. Elizabethan Schooling
    PDF File
  3. 3. Pre-1600
    PDF File
  4. 4. Seventeenth Century Masters
    PDF File
  5. 5. Eighteenth Century Masters
    PDF File
  6. 6. Finances pre-1815
    PDF File
  7. 7. View from The King's School Quad
    PDF File
  8. 8. The Nineteenth Century and the regime of 1855
    PDF File
  9. 9. The Nineteenth Century and the regime of 1876
    PDF File
  10. 10. W.R. Dawson and the staff sackings
    PDF File
  11. 12. Post World War I and Alexander James Tate
    PDF File
  12. 13. Carvings in the Old School
    PDF File
  13. 14. Old Granthamians
    PDF File

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