List of sources

Collections and archives

Bembridge Heritage Centre, Bembridge. Two files of material relating to Bembridge School assembled by local historian John Woodward.

Bodleian Library, Oxford. John Johnson Collection. 99/00-37 Yellowsands Press. Packets of proofs, trial pages, dummies, etc., mainly relating to the Nine Lessons & Carols service books of the 1960s and 70s. Originally collected by the private press bibliographer William Ridler.

Isle of Wight County Records Office, Newport. Whitehouse Archive. AC96/52. An index compiled by Jim Dearden covers about one third of the archive.

Oxford University Press archives. Correspondence of John Johnson.

Ruskin Library, University of Lancaster. Yellowsands Press collection, including a complete set of Bembridge School Newspaper. Not catalogued but a checklist is appended to this article.

Ryde School, Bembridge Boarding House. Bembridge School archives stored mainly in the common room, formerly the Lower Gallery, New House. Material formerly in the attic was transferred to Ryde, 2018-19.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto. Yellowsands Press collection. 35 boxes, including a complete set of Bembridge School Newspaper, otherwise material mainly from c.1960 on. A box list is available from the library.

Books and articles

Bembridge School Newspaper 1:1 – 74:220, 1919-92.

DAY (Robin) Grand inquisitor: memoirs. London: Weidenfeld, 1989.

Dearden (J.S.) ‘John Howard Whitehouse, 1973-1955’, article, first published in 2004, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

______ Notes & rules for compositors at the Yellowsands Press. Bembridge: Yellowsands Press, Summer 1964.

______ Printing at Bembridge School. Totland Bay: M.J. Conder, January 1965.

______ Printing at Coniston. Bembridge: Yellowsands Press, June 1958.

______ Rambling reminiscences. A Ruskinian’s recollections. London: Pallas Athene, 2014.

______ Ruskin, Bembridge and Brantwood: the growth of the Whitehouse Collection. Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994.

[Dearden (J.S.)] A Yellowsands bibliography, 1919-1969. Bembridge: Yellowsands Press, 1969.

EAGLES (Stuart) ‘Ruskin’s ‘true disciple’?: John Howard Whitehouse (1873-1955) and Ruskin’s legacy’, pp. 232-61, in After Ruskin. The social and political legacies of a Victorian prophet, 1870-1920. Oxford: OUP, 2011.

HEATH-STUBBS (John) Hindsights. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.

MORGAN (M.C.) Bryanston 1928-1978. Blandford, 1978.

RIDLER (William) British modern press books. A descriptive checklist of unrecorded items. New ed. 1975.

STEDMAN (T.M.) Bembridge School. The first forty years. Bembridge: Yellowsands Press, June 1959.

STEWART (W.A.C.) The educational innovators. Volume II: progressive schools 1881-1967. London: Macmillan, 1968.

WAKEFORD (Brian) Today well lived. The Bembridge School story, 1919-1994. Bembridge, [1994].

WHITEHOUSE (J. Howard) An account of the Yellowsands Press. Edited by James S. Dearden. Bembridge: Yellowsands Press, 1961.

______ Ed. Bembridge. An historical and general survey by members of Bembridge School. Oxford: Printed at the UP, 1923.

______ Creative education at an English school. Cambridge: Printed at the UP, 1928.

______ The craftsmanship of books. London: Allen & Unwin, 1929.

______ Education. London: Rich & Cowan, 1935. A volume in the ‘In my time’ series. Others included Marriage by Marie Stopes, Music by Hubert J. Foss, Literature by Compton Mackenzie and Art by Frank Rutter.

______  Ed. The English public school. A symposium. 1919.

______ Thy youth and cause. Cambridge: Printed at the UP for the Yellowsands Press, 1934.

WILDMAN (Stephen) [Compiler] Keeper of the flame. John Howard Whitehouse 1873-1955. [Catalogue of an exhibition at the] Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, 30 April – 2 October 2005. Includes essays by J.S. Dearden and Stuart Eagles.