Month: December 2020

Must Reads!

15 December 2020

We are delighted to share with you four brilliant books by OW authors. Military Misreadings of Shakespeare is a humorous book of full colour cartoons of the Victorian Army painted by Major (later Lt-Col) Thomas Seccombe with carefully chosen quotations from Shakespeare’s plays; it was first published by George Routledge & Sons in 1880.  Paul Cordle […]

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A Royal Visit

07 December 2020

Eighty years ago, on 8th December 1940, Wellington College was visited by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by their daughters, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. The visit was intended to boost school morale after the death of the Master, Bobby Longden, in enemy bombing two months previously. The photograph above shows the King […]

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Follow the Stars – A Celebration of Christmas!

07 December 2020

While many spent their Lockdown summers perfecting sourdough starters or baking banana bread, Biddy (L6th, A) was quite literally following the stars. A family involvement with the Macmillan Cancer Support charity led to Biddy volunteering her time to help organise and curate Macmillan’s Follow the Stars Charity Christmas concert. The concert, re-imagined for 2020 and […]

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OWXC – Cross Country and Social Running

04 December 2020

Are you a keen cross country runner and looking to get involved in a club with like minded people? If so, then the Old Wellingtonian XC Club is just what you are looking for. Re-established in 2018, with the aim to reunite OWs and represent Wellington in various running events. The club enables members to […]

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BECOME A GLOBAL GOALS HERO & SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD!

03 December 2020

We are excited to invite you to volunteer from home as a ‘Global Social Leaders Global Goals Hero’ and join an incredible team of people supporting a global movement of socially conscious young leaders in 105 countries in all world regions. GSL was set up by Wellington College’s Leadership and Coaching Institute and Future Foundations […]

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Dining marquee on South Front

02 December 2020

All who at present eat their meals in the large tent on South Front, might like to know that a somewhat similar structure was put there just over 100 years ago, again because of an emergency. In March 1919 there was a fire in the main Eastern block of College, starting in what is now […]

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