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Enjoying your 2022 copy of The Alfredian? Did you know students have been making school magazines since KAS opened in 1898? The earliest editions of ‘The KAS Magazine’ were handwritten and included original illustrations. Students from all year groups contributed. The
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pages were then bound into an annual volume. Articles ranged from poems to sports news to a 1914 Roll of Honour showing KAS alumni and staff serving in the war effort. In 1923, the format changed to print. Beautiful student-made wood block cover prints, a treasure of the archives, were printed here on the KAS press until 1938. The contents are interesting too! The first issue featured a poem about KAS, news from the annual garden fete and a report on a visit by the Inspectors from the Board of Education. Witty editorials give insight into school life and the antics of the magazine committee.
The historical context of the wider world infiltrated the pages of the school magazines. In Winter 1939, the editor wrote, “Since the last magazine was published KAS has seen events moving
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fast in Europe. The crisis affected the School as it has affected every community in this country.” WWII soon saw the magazine go on hiatus. In 1948, The Alfredian was revived in print form with a jubilee edition. It has been going strong ever since, with issues published biennially until the current annual format was adopted in the 1990s. Perhaps 100 years from now historians will be reading this Alfredian!
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