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RD/DGS - Teaching at Diss Grammar School

Reference code
RD/DGS
Level of description
Series
Title
Teaching at Diss Grammar School
Date/s
1962
1978
Scope and content
RD taught English at Diss Grammar School for three years (’74-’78).

Included are teaching materials: files of poetry, essay writing themes, reading lists, examination papers, lists of pupils’ names.

Other papers include those from an English marking seminar; an obituary of F.R. Leavis, literary critic; copies of Leavis’s article on Sir Charles Snow, Spectator, 9/3/62; copies of 'Costa Nostra', Diss Grammar School Magazine (a copy of the first issue, and 2 copies of issue 4); and a press-cutting showing RD & his son Rufus with a goat given to RD by the school pupils as a leaving gift.

See also RD/ARTS/2 for a recollection of RD’s first staff meeting.
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