Repton later became familiar to a much wider readership through the recollections of the writer Roald Dahl, who described his schooldays there in his autobiographical writing.
Dahl’s memories belonged to an earlier generation, but they provide a striking picture of the formidable disciplinary traditions once associated with British boarding schools.
The Headmaster during part of Dahl’s time at Repton was Geoffrey Fisher, who subsequently became Archbishop of Canterbury.
The juxtaposition of school discipline, religion, tradition and authority seems particularly characteristic of an educational world which was already beginning to disappear by the 1960s.
