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However, a minute Admissions webcast can be accessed by contacting our Admissions team. Accept Cookie Policy. About Us. Fees payable before joining the school. School Fee payable on the first day of term by direct debit. A few miles down the road from Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, lies Britain's most famous school.

Eton College, a boys' boarding school in the town of Windsor on the western edge of London, has captured the British imagination in films, books and TV for decades. Why should this be? Is it because Eton is the crucible for generations of political leaders, with 20 of Britain's 55 prime ministers educated there, including the first, Robert Walpole, and the latest, Boris Johnson?

This alone gives it a level of fame that is self-perpetuating. These elements encourage mythologising and a sense of the school as a world apart, a fictional fantasy of high education passed down generations of families whose wealth, as old Etonian writer James Wood put it , "stretched so far back, the origin of their prosperity was invisible.

Well, not everyone who attended Eton fits the mould. When he attended Eton from to , Okwonga was one of only a handful of black boys at the school. The book is his contribution to an "exploration of race and class" in Britain, on the grounds that "to understand where we are going as a society, we need to understand how we got here.

A striking fact in One of Them is that Okwonga was not sent to Eton by a family hungry to give him a leg up: instead, he urged his mother to send him after seeing it on a TV documentary and visiting on a school trip.

Musa Okwonga's Eton memoir One of Them recalls his time as one of only a handful of black pupils at the school in the s Credit: Michel Rosenberg. The determination Okwonga showed is a quality we see in the old boys who have climbed the greasy pole of politics: "No one here ever tells us out loud that Etonians are natural leaders, " he writes.

But the stories that add flavour to the facts are often from fiction; though given the literary world's scepticism of material success failure is more interesting , a novelist's portrayal of Eton boys can be unflattering — or worse. Take that amiable idiot Bertie Wooster, whose status as an old Etonian is classic PG Wodehouse : affectionate rather than cutting. We wouldn't have a fellow like that at Eton. His education is revealed late in JM Barrie's play when Hook jumps toward death-by-crocodile, murmuring " Floreat Etona " "May Eton flourish" , the school motto.

Hook was, according to a Provost at the school in , "a great Etonian but not a good one", and in a speech given at Eton that year, Barrie wryly noted that "perhaps it was just that at Oxford he fell among bad companions — Harrovians.

Back in the real life of Eton, villains and fools in Okwonga's memoir are rare: One of Them is a nuanced portrait of his school years, and although "there were no more than about four black boys out of 1, students, the entire time I was there", Okwonga experienced "not too much" overt racism.

On one level this looks like an advance on 30 years earlier, when Nigerian author Dillibe Onyeama suffered racist taunts as the first black student to complete studies at the school, which he reported in his memoir. Writing about these attacks got Onyeama banned from returning to Eton until recently.

The racism Okwonga experienced was secondary, but no less insidious for that. One boy "joked" about his great-grandfather, a slave-driver, owning Africans; another told him, later, "you have no idea what was being said behind your back about black people. It was so bizarre to him that a middle-class black boy could go to Eton. After Onyeama's book and before Okwonga's, the most prominent memoir of Eton was Stand Before Your God , by the novelist Paul Watkins, the author of 18 books including the Inspector Pekkala series written under the name Sam Eastland.

His memoir is a funny and dramatic account of the experiences of a young American trying to come to grips with a new life in a new country, after being dropped off by his parents at boarding school when "I swear, I thought I was going to a party. We also award scholarships at age 13 and age 16 to bright boys from state schools, funding them through five years and two years at Eton respectively.

A wide range of bursary support is also available for boys with Conditional Places, subject to a detailed financial assessment. Beyond the schoolroom, Eton has outstanding facilities for music, art, design and drama, and our wide-ranging sports provision now includes the Thames Valley Athletics Stadium, which we share with outside clubs and organisations, and our rowing lake at Dorney, which was the venue for the Olympics.

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