The school mag, the Elizabethan, continued to be published until some time in the 1970s.  For at least a decade, the format - even the cover - remained totally unchanged, as did the style in which the magazine was written.  Charles Lamb would have found it stuffy and antiquated!.  I'm afraid it's not altogether flattering about your performance as Calpurnia in the School production of Julius Caesar, Mr Selway-Hoskins!

The copy covered with signatures marked the end of the academic year 1954-55, the end of the first year at school for Form 1B, whose names appear on it.  Term may have ended on a Saturday, which would explain the absence of Goldstein and Segal (Jewish boys were excused school on Saturdays) but where were you, Terry?

The Isotope was a (very) unofficial magazine produced by the sixth form.  Its content is not as satirical as one might have expected.  Anyone know how long it survived?  I am indebted to Nigel Palmer for the loan of these mags.  He has a big collection of them.

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