Written to coincide with the 450th anniversary of Thetford Grammar School's re-founding by Sir Richard Fulmerston's will of 1566, this book examines the history of a school which may date from 631. First re-founded by the Bishop of Norwich in 1114, the school was re-vitalised by Fulmerston's will following the dissolution of the monasteries, and firmly re-established by an Act of Parliament in 1610 and then by a new foundation document in 1876. A Girls' School was set up alongside the ancient Boys' School in 1888 and both schools spent the middle years of the twentieth century as county council grammar schools, before their re-foundation as a co-educational independent school in 1981. Drawing on the school's archives David Seymour discusses four-and-a-half centuries of governance, pupils, headteachers, ushers and assistant teachers, phases of building, and the development of the curriculum.
