Blog

Blog posts presenting original archival and historical research by interns on the Schools of Empire project.

Content warning: some blog posts contain racist language in quotations from historical primary sources.

Exploration and Empire in Prize Poems from Rugby School Molly Groarke (University of Cambridge)

‘Little Admirals’ – Echoes of Masculinity, Nation and Empire in Public School Concerts in the First Half of the 20th Century Emma Arthur (University of Oxford)

Musical Manliness: An Examination of the Repertoire and Rituals of ‘Hall-Singing’ at Rugby School Emma Arthur (University of Oxford)

Examining the Musical Identities of The Rugby School Rifle Corps Emma Arthur (University of Oxford)

History, Islam, and Empire in Public School Prize Essays Molly Groarke (University of Cambridge)

The Hidden Curriculum: An Empire ‘Anglicised’‍ ‍Caitlin Price Hand (University of Oxford)

Networks of Imperial Finance: An Unusual Case Study Holly Hiscox (Open University)

The Rugby School Registers Holly Hiscox (Open University)

Making of the Great Game Players: Tibetan Students in Britain Between 1913 and 1917 Tsering Shakya (Tibetan Review)

The Adventurer and the Curator: Frederick Selous and John Guy Dollman Matthew Roe (University of Oxford)

Educating empire: exploring exams and their colonial links Olivia Hersey (University of Oxford)

Hibbert of Bilton Grange: Rugby town and transatlantic slavery Dr Katie Donington (Open University)

Colonial schools in India: an introductory note Excy Hansda (University of Liverpool)

The life (and accidental death) of a revolutionary educator: George Cotton, bishop of Calcutta Excy Hansda (University of Liverpool)

“Worthier of regard, and stronger”: the implications of “fagging” in empire Yumn Batool (University of Oxford)

Writing empire: spaces imagined and made “real”? Lily Tekseng (University of Cambridge)

The debate on repatriation Skye (Rugby School, Year 13)

Curriculum and colonialism Lily Tekseng (University of Cambridge)

“So nefarious a traffic”: a newly-discovered eighteenth-century schoolboy’s attack on the transatlantic slave trade Tomos Evans (University of Birmingham)