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Baden-Powell Visits the Charterhouse (1901)

25th April 2017

Baden-Powell Visits the Charterhouse (1901)

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a lieutenant-general in the British Army who founded the Scout Movement and became the first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association. He was a pupil at Charterhouse when the school moved to Godalming, Surrey, and was... continue

Object of the Month December 2016

2nd December 2016

Object of the Month December 2016

The Block, 1837 | Lithograph by H W Burgess (c. 1792–1844) This print relates to Charterhouse School, the charitably-funded grammar school which flourished on this site between 1614 and 1872. The artist, Henry William Burgess, was the school’s drawing master in the 1830s and his still-life records... continue

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