The first issue of The Shirburnian was published 160 years ago in March 1859. It was devised as ‘an outlet for its [the School’s] wit, and also an easy means of printing all its News, both as regards those of us who are here and those who have left’, and today remains the School’s main publication setting out the … Read more
On 19 July 1917, the London publishing firm Grant Richards published Alec Waugh’s first novel, The Loom of Youth. The novel, which went on to become a best-seller, caused a great controversy at Sherborne School, with the result that Alec and his father resigned from the Old Shirburnian Society (they were not reinstated until 1933) and Alec’s brother … Read more
On 6 April 1918, nine days after he had been captured by the German army, 2nd Lieutenant Alec Waugh wrote a postcard from Mainz POW Camp to a schoolmaster at Sherborne School. Follow the link to find out what Alec wrote on his postcard from Mainz. Information about Alec Waugh’s time at Sherborne School is … Read more