Other Publications

Creating form magazines seem to have been a popular activity for boys at MGS and we have around thirty that survive in the archive dating from the 1890s to the present day. Four of our early magazine…

Splendid Isolation was a newsletter created for Lower School boys at MGS in the first Covid lockdown of Spring 2020 Splendid Isolation.docx Splendid Isolation 2.docx Splendid Isolation 3.docx Splendi…

At Christmas 1948, the Philosophical Society (MGS’s oldest society, and dedicated to the study of all things scientific) was given a present by an Old Mancunian. It was a handwritten magazine created…

Grammar School Tracts, published c1841 One of our more unusual and interesting items in the Archives is a small printed and bound volume entitled Grammar School Tracts.  It is a collection of old Sc…

The Book of Refoundation,  displayed in the MGS archive room, lists all Old Mancunians and supporters of MGS who have made a donation of more than £2,000 to the Bursary fund since 1998. There are now…

Hubert Astley Field attended MGS between 1914 and 1917, and returned to teach Physics and Chemistry in 1923 for forty years in total. In addition to his teaching, he was the master in charge of Lacro…

Credere Aude was launched in 1948 and produced by the Christian Union. Below are the editions the archive holds. Please get in touch if you have any missing editions and can help fill the gaps. Crede…