The Digital Archive offers digitised and searchable copies of many of the School’s archived print materials, including full school photographs from both Divisions, historic issues of The Boltonian and the Girls’ Division Magazine, School newsletters and those of the Old Boltonians’ and Old Girls’ Associations from the 1880s onwards.
The News Archive contains a record of website news from 2006 to 2023, which can be viewed by year, by category, and by individual areas of the School. The Former Pupils’ section of this site contains additional Archives and Memories taken from the personal collections of former pupils and staff, which were compiled during this time period and reflect back on earlier times in Bolton School’s history.
The Twitter/X Archive stores historic posts made to some of the school’s most prolific accounts on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter). The accounts archived include the main Bolton School account and the Alumni account, amongst others.
Meet the Archivist - Eric Fairweather
We hope you enjoy searching the Bolton School Archives. If you have a question about the School's history or would like to donate to the Archive any photographs or artefacts from your time at School, Eric Fairweather, the School Archivist would love to hear from you.
Eric can be contacted via email here [email protected]
Click on the button link 'View the Bolton School Digital Archives' above or visit the website here.
Both of these options will lead to the Digital Archives front page.
There are then two options;
Option 1
Click on Browse on the toolbar. This will take you to a page detailing all the categories of publication that are available, as listed above.
Click on a Category to see a full list of all the issues within each category. Magazines are in decades so a further click will be necessary to choose a particular year.
Click on the box detailing what you are looking for, this will lead to the actual document.
Option 2
The other option is to click on Publications Panel View, which provides the facility to make more specific queries.
A specific year may be chosen or a range of years may be chosen by using the Year From and Year To dropdown boxes.
A specific publication may be chosen or any combination of the publications available.
A specific name may be searched for e.g. Leverhulme. Every reference to Leverhulme will then appear in a table. These may not necessarily appear in date order and a click on ‘Year’ at the top of the Year column will lead to the items being displayed either from earliest first to latest first.
Three icons appear to the right of each reference identified. A click on the left-hand icon will highlight just the words, the middle one will display the article within which the word appears and the right hand one will display the full magazine.