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featuring natural history artefacts. The Museum was dismantled to make way for the Higher Line Common Room in 1974. Many of its exhibits had already been sold. Originally, the
Sodality Chapel was an ante-chapel before the conversion of the Boys' Chapel next door into the Museum, hence its connection
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until they were transferred to the corridor linking the Old
Infirmary with the school. It had been Waterton's wish for this record of his lifetime's work to be on display in his former school; the collection was lent to Wakefield Museum in the 1970s. Thankfully and due to the tireless work of the
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The Do Room, re-opened in 2000 following replacement of the beams which support the Top
Refectory above, features an exhibition of the School's history and items from the collections, including photographs, a Victorian chamber-pot complete with the College emblem, the desk used and engraved by
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and has the oldest known leather bookbinding of any
Western book, was loaned to the British Museum, then the British Library, between 1974 and 2012 when after a public appeal it was bought by the library from the Society of Jesus. It has been on display between
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current curator Jan
Graffius some of the collection has now returned to its home in the Long Room. The Long Room was used as a study room from the 1970s until 2003 when it was restored and once again used for a display of items from the College collections.
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to the Higher Line Common Room. A dedicated archivist and part-time librarian now oversee the contents of the House Libraries, taking on the task from
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Among those collections held from public view are the numerous blood-soaked garments from Jesuits martyred in Japan, the ropes used to quarter
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The Long Room functioned as a museum of stuffed birds in Victorian display cabinets, the Waterton Collection, donated by old boy explorer
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interest. Signal among its books associated with historical figures is "Queen Mary's
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was sold at Christies in 1996. A small very early anonymous painting of the
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and London since 2014, alternating between the two cities.
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