Merchant Taylors' School Archive

Assisted by volunteers, the school works hard to build, catalogue, and maintain the archive. Much of their work in recent years has been related to the First World War, but there are many more projects they have been working on recently. You can read about their work by clicking on the links below.

If you have anything you would like to donate to the Archive, we would be very happy to hear from you to discuss this. Furthermore, if you are interested in volunteering for the Archive this would also be very much appreciated. Please email development@mtsn.org.uk for further assistance.

News From the Archive

Jonny Taylor: The Gymnastics Display: A Speech Day Tradition

Jonny Taylor: A unique treasure in the Fencing Team cupboard

Jonny Taylor: The MTS Locomotive

Jonny Taylor: John Strachan and the tragedy of the Affray

Jonny Taylor: Journalism at MTS

Jonny Taylor: Group Captain Hugh J. Wilson (OMT 1918)

Jonny Taylor: Sixes and Sevens, July 2024

Jonny Taylor: Examinations and a controversial Head Master

Jonny Taylor: John D'Arcy Norton Bequest

Jonny Taylor: Careers Advice in the 1930s: The Head Master's employment committee

Jonny Taylor: Charles Mathews (OMT 1791), a comic genius from the Eighteenth Century

Jonny Taylor: General Sir Richard Gale (OMT 1911), a key figure in the success of D-Day

Jonny Taylor: An MTS Time Capsule: The Head Monitor's Box

Jonny Taylor: The Jazz Age

Jonny Taylor: Where the past reconnects

Jonny Taylor: Sixes and Sevens, April 2022

Jonny Taylor: A Musical Bequest

Jonny Taylor: Literary Accessions

Jonny Taylor: Legends of Taylors'

Jonny Taylor: Memories of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Jonny Taylor: Norman Melluish (1917-1921) and Keith Melluish (1915-1920)

Jonny Taylor: Sally Gilbert: MTS Archivist 2013-2020

Jonny Taylor: The Manor War Memorial

Jonny Taylor: The Boer War Memorial 

Jonny Taylor: The Centenary of the House System

Jonny Taylor: E. E. Rider - A Merchant Taylors' School Stalwart

Jonny Taylor: Surviving Pandemics: Merchant Taylors' and the Plague

Jonny Taylor: VE Day Commemorations

Sally Gilbert: Revealing the Five Masters' Chairs

Karen Lush: Remembrance of Things Past

Sally Gilbert: Monitors' and Prompters' Table Restoration

Online Taylorian Archive

A few years ago, with funding from OMTs and parents who kindly donated to the Merchant Taylors' Fund, we created a digital archive of every edition of the Taylorian magazine dating back to 1878. If you are logged into this website, every edition is available to download as a PDF. You can then search them for words and names. So, for instance, if you want to find any mentions of the Alfred Marshall Economics and Politics Society from a given issue, you can do so. Or, you may wish to see mentions of a classmate, and you can search for them by name in a given year.

To log in to this site, you will need to enter a username and password. If you do not already have one, please click on 'new user registration' and enter the details you wish to use. You will then be given access to the pages. Click here to log in. If you are already logged in, click here to view the Taylorian Archive.

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