Students, parents and staff now have access to all editions of The Newingtonian via the Archives Space on Spaces.

The Newingtonian started as a school magazine, published four times a year, in 1884. From 1919, it was published three times year, and was then reduced to two issues per year with the Second World War. It became the College’s annual in 1973.

Making The Newingtonian accessible on Spaces has involved the digitisation of some 300 editions, up to 2001. From 2002 the editions are available as ‘born-digital’ files. The digitisation process included Optical Character Recognition (OCR): the Archives Space has instructions for text searching individual or multiple editions.

Included with the 1901 editions is the one and only issue of The Orphan, a student magazine similar to The Newingtonian published ‘under the Direction of the Prefects of Newington College’ in October that year. The reasons for its publication, as an apparent rival to The Newingtonian, are unclear.

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David Roberts
College Archivist