Christopher Martin Jenkins visited Marlborough to air his views on modern cricket and sports journalism... more >
A dedicated group of Hardy lovers - some clad in Victorian attire - followed in the College tradition of making an annual pilgrimage to the land that captivated Hardy’s heart... more >
At the National Schools' Fives Championships, held at the end of March 2008, Marlborough players enjoyed notable success, reaching the quarterfinals at both U14 and Colts levels... more >
The Independent Schools Inspectorate carried out an inspection of Marlborough College between 13th and 18th January 2008. The full ISI report has now been published... more >
This year’s Medawar Lecture was presented by the founder/director of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghleidjh. Camila has been a psychotherapist for more than twenty years, and founded her first charity in her early twenties... more >
You may be aware of recent press coverage relating to rugby fixtures between Marlborough and Wellington. Neither school wanted these matters to reach the Press and neither school initiated the articles... more >
In late January, the Literary Society welcomed Anthony Joseph, the Trinidadian novelist, musician, poet and performance artist who came to Marlborough to perform his own style of poetry known as 'beat'... more >
Pupils recently returned to Marlborough following the annual Remove exchange with the Collège de Notre-Dame de Bury near to Paris... more >
Two College teams sucessfully negotiated some tricky climbs and boulder problems and enjoyed notable success at the Schools' Indoor Climbing Competition, held in Bristol each January... more >
Illumination, a pupil led initiative, celebrates the creative, musical and dramatic talents of those within the school. The Ellis Theatre was crammed for Illumination's first event of 2008... more >
Sixteen teams of debaters from the College gathered for two rounds of four simultaneous debates, plus a Final, in aid of Help for Heroes... more >
Commanding the Memorial Hall stage for this special chairty concert in aid of Help for Heroes, were The Bills, a ‘Bluegrass’ band recently voted Western Canada’s Entertainers of the Year... more >
Members of the London Air Ambulance Service provided a snapshot of the work of helicopter crews, ground staff and medical teams... more >
Smoke, lights, music and fancy dress: the Ellis Theatre had it all for this most poetic of competitions. Pupils from the Remove (Year 10) performed their own poems written specifically for the event... more >
With over £4,000 of sponsorship money in the offing, Tom and Nick Codrington took to the South Downs for the longest day trip of their lives... more >
Professor Roger Davies, Chair of Physics at Oxford University, gave the 2007 Blackett Science lecture entitled 'A Universe of Galaxies'... more >
Preceded by an engaging piece of stand-up entertainment, the Drama Department’s November production comprised a double bill featuring two comic plays by Molière: The Shotgun Wedding and Don Juan... more >
Nineteen Upper Sixth pupils studying Politics visited Washington during the Michaelmas half term break... more >
Ten pupils have recently returned from an exciting French exchange visit to one of the College's partner schools on the outskirts of Orléans... more >
As part of the new Year 9 programme, pupils embarked on a quest to discover more about the history and culture of local places of interest... more >
Over the October half term exeat, an entourage of twenty pupils studying A2 English literature set sail for Ireland’s capital, Dublin... more >
A highlight of the boarding house calendar is the House Song Competition. Just before the October half term exeat, the school packs into the Memorial Hall to hear songs delivered by each of the 14 boarding houses... more >
The Shell (Year 9) divided into two groups to walk, in turn, the six miles from Avebury to Marlborough over the Marlborough Downs... more >
Patrick Ford and Alice Hancock received prizes from the 2007 Foyle judges at the Young Poets of the Year Award held on National Poetry Day at the Unicorn Theatre in London... more >
The 2007 Dunford Lecture was presented in the Ellis Theatre in October by Katharine Merry, one of Britain’s most outstanding female athletes... more >
College cadets wear a re-forged cap badge to mark the Contingent's special place in the cadet movement and a new affiliation... more >
Mr Jeff Wilson recently visited the College to speak to the Biology Society about his experiences in filming the well known series, Planet Earth... more >
As part of an on-going programme whereby visiting theatre companies perform at the College, in September, 'Pickled Image' returned to Marlborough to stage their latest visual treat, Houdini's Suitcase... more >
In September, the newly inaugurated Shell 'Form' groups boarded three coaches for an educational visit to London... more >
To mark the centenary of the birth of Louis MacNeice (Old Marlburian), Terence Brown visited the College to deliver a centenary lecture... more >
In July 2007 the Drama Department took its 2006 production of Euripides’ The Bacchae to perform on the Greek island of Naxos... more >
In July, ten pupils from the Lower and Upper Sixths shrugged off the comforts of modern living to follow a wilderness trail in South Africa. More than a safari, this expedition became, for most, a rite of passage... more >
Heads full of revision notes, fingers calloused from frantic scribbling? What better than to escape from stuffy exam halls to the calm of the mountains and beaches of North Wales... more >
In July, fourteen Marlburians headed for Morocco and the High Atlas mountains to complete their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award... more >
A group of L6th pupils studying English journeyed to Stratford for a workshop and performance of Chekhov’s The Seagull... more >
The Shell (Year 9), have returned from a week in the Brecon Beacons polishing their leadership, communication and teamwork skills... more >
The Lower Sixth had a chance to ask some important questions when visitors from the worlds of work, academic endeavour and gap year adventure came to the College for a two day Careers Convention in June... more >
Thirty-three Remove (Year 10) students travelled to Oxford in June to sample some of the delights in the city, to meet Old Marlburians studying at the university and to see a play... more >
The cast of the 2007 Shell (Year 9) Play gripped and amused packed audiences in the Ellis Theatre at the end of May... more >
Beginning in the Memorial Hall and then moving venue to the Ellis Theatre, this ambitious concert featured some of the College's main bands and orchestras as well as solo performances... more >
Will Marlow and Owen Farr won joint first place in the song category of the "Free Spirit" National Poetry and Song Competition 2007... more >
An enthusiastic band of avid Pythonists descended on the Palace Theatre in London to re-live that comic gem, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, in its new incarnation as the musical, Spamalot... more >
On Tuesday May 1st, the College's Amnesty Society placed a prison cage at the centre of the school to raise awareness about prisoners of conscience and injustice, as well as the work of Amnesty... more >
A group of Upper School Music Technologists joined some retro Hundreds rockers for an evening of Classic Rock at Wembley Stadium... more >
Pupils and adults enjoyed some awe-inspiring landscapes in a week that boasted an ambitious mix of academic and adventurous aims more >
A three week rugby tour to Singapore and New Zealand was, inevitably, a daunting prospect. In the Land of the Long White Cloud, rugby flows in the blood of almost every man, woman and child... more >
A train took us from the green valley floor to the impressive, grey and white, desolate Mer Du Glace glacier... more >
Once every five years, Marlborough College pupils choose a range of charities to support by undertaking a sponsored walk that takes them in a circular route over the Marlborough Downs... more >
Examining first hand so many key Twentieth Century art works, including those of Matisse and Kandinsky, was certainly a highlight... more >
Thirty-eight sixth-formers and six staff enjoyed another highly successful trip to Greece at the start of the Easter holidays... more >
This trip presented senior and junior squash players with the challenge of an entirely different sporting environment... more >
Coming down into St. Petersburg airport, we weren’t given much cause for comfort. Our first impressions were of a grey, dusty, concrete jungle. Once into the city, however, these first impressions were shattered... more >
A group of twenty two Upper Sixth Art Historians travelled to Florence to sample the cultural delights of the city and revise for their A2 exam... more >
This was the German Department's first trip to Lindau, an attractive island town on Lake Constance. Pupils were the guests of the Dialoge Language School and were accommodated in pairs with guest families... more >
A six day trip to Nerja, in southern Spain, provided eleven pupils studying GCSE Spanish with a wonderful opportunity to enhance their language skills... more >
We feasted on music, dance, art, architecture, vintage cars and even religious heritage. The vitality of community life and cultural expression is mesmerizing... more >
In March 2007, three girls studying GCSE astronomy at Marlborough became the first secondary level pupils to observe through the night at the WHT... more >
Black Comedy was an entirely student-led initiative, staged on two consecutive nights in March... more >
For its Lent Term production, the Drama Department staged one of the outstanding plays of the last twenty years, Timberlake Wertenbaker's multiple-award-winning Our Country's Good... more >
Bob Taylor, the former Derbyshire and England wicket-keeper, visited the College on 4th March to give a three hour master-class to members of the College XI and a group of aspiring keepers from the Shell (Year 9)... more >
This was an emotive and eye-opening tour for Year 9 pupils who visited the battlefields and trenches of Flanders over the February half term... more >
On Wednesday February 7th, the Lower Sixth English sets boarded two coaches for an ambitious academic away day to London... more >
The annual Scholars' Exhibition allows art scholars from across the yeargroups to exhibit their work to the College and the public... more >
2006 was organ rebuild year and, with the project now completed, Marlborough has the first modern era Beckerath in the UK. The inauguration of the new instrument included an evening recital by Simon Preston... more >
On Saturday 3rd February, Eleanor Barns-Graham won first place in the "Jumping and Style" competition in Bristol... more >
On Thursday 25th January, Professor Anthony Briggs visited the College as a guest of the Russian Society. We listened to a man of enormous integrity, humility and humanity who has a rare gift of oratory... more >
Marlborough College entered four teams in the Oxford regional round of the ICYD - the largest young debaters’ competition in the UK... more >
Pascale Petit was invited to the College by the Poetry Society to deliver a poetry workshop and reading on Tuesday 16th January... more >
On the 11th of January Pascal Khoo Thwe came to speak to the College's Amnesty Society and Illuminations about his Burmese odyssey... more >
On Tuesday 9th January, Sean McEvoy spoke to the College's Literary Society about Hamlet within its context of drama and Revenge Tragedy.... more >
Although not a romantic or uniformly attractive city like Paris or Rome, Berlin is still to be highly recommended as a place to visit... more >
A trip to uncover some of the cultural, artistic and archetectural treasures of this diverse and spectacular city... more >
125 miles in four days, 76 portages and camping for three nights: these are just some of the reasons that the DW is called the canoeists’ Everest... more >
A frenetic ten day tour took one group of Marlburians to the Drakensberg mountains and the ancient Kingdom of the Zulu... more >
Some of the College's athletics team made their customary trip to the Algarve during the Easter break for some sunny pre-season training... more >