Best of
Boarding-School

2006

The History Boys: The Film


Alan Bennett - 2006
    An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.

The Darkness Within


Kurinoone - 2006
    What if he took Harry straight to him instead? A Dark Harry fanfic. AU Mild HG

Juliet of the Chalet School


Caroline German - 2006
    Juliet of the Chalet School covers the Christmas term between Jo of the Chalet School and The Princess of the Chalet School.

Blow Out the Moon


Libby Koponen - 2006
    Peppered with black-and-white photographs, illustrations, personal letters and documents from the author's own youth, this humorous and touching coming-of-age story follows a young American girl as she attends an English boarding school in the 1950s.