Publications

WINCHESTER COLLEGE ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

The publications below can be downloaded free of charge.

Medieval Glass at Winchester College Download here
Formidable An Eighteenth-Century Ship Model  Download here	English Watercolours  From the Adam Crick Bequest Download here
Bards of a Feather An adaptation of a talk given by Dr Timothy Hands, the Headmaster of Winchester College. Download here	A Winchester Walk In 1819, the poet John Keats described Winchester as 'the pleasantest town I ever was in'. Download here
College Collections A record of the activity of all four parts of the College’s collection - Treasury, the Fellows' Library, the Archives, and Science School, in the past year.  Download here	College Archives A brief guide to the history and content of the College Archives, written in 2001 by Dr Maurice Keen (College, 1947-1952, Fellow 1989-2002). Download here

Completed between 15th May 1922, when Viscount Grey of Fallodon laid the foundation stone, and 29th May 1924, when Arthur Duke of Connaught opened the memorial, War Cloister stands as a tribute to the vision of the Headmaster who initiated the idea, Montague Rendall, and of course to the 513 Wykehamists who fell during the Great War. In size it remains the largest private war memorial in the United Kingdom.
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Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford between 2003 and 2015, explores the history of this post, and examines some of the many scholars who have held it, including four Wykehamists.
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The 30 years preceding the Great War were the golden age of the public school”, comments Budge Firth in his history of  Winchester College. “There was a wave of high confidence. It all seemed too good to be true; and alas! For us, as for the other great schools, it could not permanently endure.”
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