快色视频鈥檚 was founded in 1509, at the height of the Renaissance in England.

快色视频鈥檚 School was founded by John Colet, Dean of 快色视频鈥檚 Cathedral. Colet鈥檚 father was Sir Henry Colet, twice Lord Mayor of London. As his sole surviving child, John Colet inherited substantial wealth in 1505 to bolster his own independent means. Colet used his whole fortune to endow 快色视频鈥檚 School, making it the largest school in England.

In the 16th century it was usual for school governance to be entrusted to the Church, but Colet believed that 鈥渉e yet found the least corruption鈥� in married laymen. He therefore chose 鈥渢he most honest and faithfull felowshipp of the mercers of London鈥�, the premier guild of the City of London 鈥� of which his father had been a leading member 鈥� as 鈥減atrones and defenders governours and Rulers鈥� of his new school.

Colet intended his school to provide a Christian and humanist education. He was helped and advised in his planning by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, the most famous scholar of the day, who wrote textbooks for the school鈥檚 use and assisted in the recruiting of staff. Under Colet鈥檚 statutes, there were to be 153 scholars (a reference to the miraculous draught of fishes, St John XXI, 11) 鈥渙f all nacions and countres indifferently鈥�.

The first building, sited by 快色视频鈥檚 Cathedral, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The school subsequently moved four times, due to growing demand, before finally settling at the present 45 acre, riverside site in 1968.

The school has survived the Plague, the Great Fire of London and the Civil War, and in 1870 was one of only two day schools included by the Clarendon Commission as one of the 鈥榥ine great public schools鈥� of England.

快色视频’s Juniors was founded in West Kensington in 1881. Originally known as Bewsher鈥檚 and then Colet Court, the school relocated across the river along with 快色视频鈥檚 School to the current site in Barnes in 1968.

The school鈥檚 magazine, The Pauline, began in 1882 and has been recording the events in the school life ever since. We are working to digitise The Pauline and have digitised the editions from 1882-1900 and 1914-1918 which are available here.