The Sherborne School archives contain a wealth of material about the history of Sherborne School, its former pupils and staff. Click on a link below to explore our collections:
- Former Headmasters and School Staff
- Former Pupils
- School Governors
- Sherborne School and its Buildings
- School Boarding Houses
- School Registers
- The Shirburnian (School magazine)
- Playing Fields & Pavilions
- Sports & Games
- The Carmen (School song)
- The School Hymn Book
- The Sherborne Penny, the School Crest and the School Motto
- Commemoration Day (Commem)
- School Rules
- Films
- Examination Papers
- Alan Turing OBE, PhD, FRS (1912-1954)
- Alec Waugh and The Loom of Youth
- Sherborne Pageant, 1905
- Bombing of Sherborne, 30 September 1940
- Sherborne’s Pack Monday Fair
- Charles Dickens’ visit to Sherborne, December 1854
- Guides to Archive Holdings
- Rare & Special Book Collection
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Shirburnians & the Olympic Games
- Shirburnians who have represented their country in sport
- Shirburnians & the Boat Race
- Shirburnian Record Breakers
- Desert Island Discs castaways
- Southern Railway Schools Class Locomotive 30906 ‘Sherborne’
- Sherborne & the English Civil War (1642-1651)
- Victoria Cross Recipients
- Roll of Honour
- Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
- First World War (1914-1919)
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lives Lost in Service (1919-1939, 1946 to date)
- Prisoners of War & Internees in World War Two
- Books written by or about Old Shirburnians & members of School Staff held in the Historic Library & Rare Book Collection at Sherborne School