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Academic life
Classrooms – Desk lid 1890s
The Full Story
The Names on the Desk
Desk Detail
Academic excellence – the Richards Gold Medal
Exams – ‘Thank you’ Letter, 2011
The first five students of Radley to take the Oxford and Cambridge Entrance Certificate
Science – The Transit of Venus. 6th June 2012
Astronomy at Radley
Spectroscopy
Reverend John Kirkby and Warden Wilson
Rev. Robert James Wilson, Warden of Radley 1880-1889.
Science – inventors and innovators
School and Empire – Letter home, 1857
Letter Home, 1857
How the Talbot Letters Came to Radley.
The Talbot Brothers
The Jennings Family
Old Radleians serving in India during the Sepoy Rebellion, 1857
Victorian school life – Letters from a Primary School, 2017
A day at a primary school, 2017
Victorian school life – The teachers’ revenge, 1870s
Common Room v Pupils
Examinees 1870s
Boarding life
Boarding houses – Social Colours, 1880
Social Colours, 1880
No. 23. Social Colours 1880 – the Tutors
Orchard House, 1979-2007
Caps and Gowns – school uniforms
School tuck shop – A chicken roll
Digging for Victory
Chapel & Charities
Charities – Menu, 2000
St Peter’s, London Docks and Radley College Mission
Time capsule, 1893 and 2021
‘Friend and benefactor’: Selwyn Oxley and the caravan for the deaf
Key moments in College history
Jubilees and coronations
Heraldry – Grant of Arms, 1908
The College crest, 1908
Heraldry – Shield from Dining Hall 1947
The Full Story
A-Z of The Shields in Hall
Arms and motto of the Soames family
Unidentified Coat of Arms
BBC documentary ‘Public School’ 1979
The Full Story
Radleian Interview, 1979.
Mansion fire – JRS’s PhD thesis SAVED 1996
The Full Story
101 uses of a fire engine
When I grow up I want to be a fireman
Landscape & Buildings
Capability Brown – Receipt for £672, 1770
Receipt for £672
The Radley connection – a Capability Brown client network
Rocque’s Map of Berkshire, 1761
Reconstructing Capability Brown’s work at Radley Hall: North & South views
Reconstructing Capability Brown’s work at Radley Hall: romantic and picturesque – serpentine walk and Gothic buildings
Reconstructing Capability Brown’s work at Radley Hall: fish pond into lake: water features from formal to picturesque
Loss & Rediscovery: Capability Brown’s landscape at Radley
Clocktower
Robert Wells Risley
Remembering together
War Memorials – Equality in death: the Servants’ War Memorial, 1924
Equality in death: the WW1 War Memorial
About the men on the ‘Servants Memorial’ – a private’s war
Memorials
Remembering together
Societies & Student Activities
School magazines – Magazine cover, 2014
Declamations – Live-stream, 2018
Live-stream, 2018: Declamations
Debating Society – The Women’s Suffrage debates, 1908-1918
‘This House deplores the entry of women into Parliament’ Debate, 1918
Debate 1908. ”That in the opinion of this House, Female Suffrage would be beneficial to this country.”
Debate 1910. “That this House approves of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement.”
Debate 1913 ”That this House is in favour of the extension of the franchise to women”
Debate 1913 – the speakers
Debate 1918. ”This House deplores the entry of women into Parliament
Sport
Sport at Radley – Wallpaper, 2018
Wallpaper, 2018: a timeline of sport at Radley College
Wallpaper, 2018: a montage of sport at Radley College
Rowing – Pewter tankard 1913
The Full Story
DFC. M. Le Blanc-Smith
The obituaries for Freeman and Whittet
Cricket – Planting Plan 1948
Cricket at Radley, 1847-2016
Century Clump
Football – Soccer Victory on Youtube 2011
The Full Story
1882 Soccer Team
The rules of football as played at Radley College 1867
Radley Archives blog
Radley Digital Archive
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