Rockfield School News Today

Iona, Kingussie, Rothes, Oban and Campbeltown have all been shortlisted for a prestigious community award.

With its asbestos roof, bland exterior, dirt floor and wooden pens, the old auction mart in the Sutherland village of Rogart seemed to have little…

Rockfield schoolteacher and pupils Photograph from the collections of Monmouth Museum © MonLife Heritage FOR the last of the photographs to mark Women’s History Month, this one is a tribute to all the women teachers past and present. The picture shows teacher, pupil teacher and pupils of Rockfield School near Monmouth in about 1900. Teaching was the career most open to women at the turn of the century, but even in the 1901 census only 8 per cent of women in occupations had a profession –...