The Home of RGS Scholarship
Welcome to the Unchained Library, the modern home of RGS Scholarship.
The Royal Grammar School Guildford is the custodian of the most splendid chained library featuring unique works of scholarship, including two early editions of Newton’s Principa. As stunning a scholarly repository as it is, it is only appreciated in person.
This Unchained Library is our way of exhibiting unique works of scholarship written by our students, alumni and staff to a much wider audience.
Scholarship is one of our core values; it is what our institution prides itself upon above all else, and I hope you get a flavour of that in digesting the materials contained herein.
Mrs H E Tarasewicz
Head of Scholarship
Latest update: Competition
Feature Piece
Does free speech build or break a community?
This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Marcus Perkins for submission to the prestigious, national Karen Becher Essay Competition 2025, run by the National Holocaust Museum, which he went on to win. A full copy of the essay can be found below. A brief extract is included here: Communities are fragile concepts (Bauman,…
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- How altruism and prosocial behaviour can be explained from an evolutionary, psychological, and chemical perspective.
This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Joe Millar as an Independent Learning Assignment (ILA) project. It was the winning submission in the STEM category of the 2025 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short introduction to the full report, which can be found below: Altruism refers to the tendency of social organisms to display prosocialbehaviour to… Read more: How altruism and prosocial behaviour can be explained from an evolutionary, psychological, and chemical perspective. - Bel Canto: To what extent is the Germanic school of singing technique the opposite of the Garcian school of singing?
This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Oscar Ford as an Independent Learning Assignment (ILA). It was the winning submission in the Arts/ Humanities category of the 2025 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short introduction to the full essay: Bel canto is a term widely used, and one surrounded by misunderstanding and controversy. While it saw… Read more: Bel Canto: To what extent is the Germanic school of singing technique the opposite of the Garcian school of singing? - Modelling Acoustic Scattering via Fractal Mesh Decomposition
This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Yuvan Raja as an Original Research in Science (ORIS) project. It was the winning submission in the ORIS category of the 2025 ILA/ ORIS award. The following provides a short introduction to the full report, which can be found below: In this project I develop a variety of strategies for code… Read more: Modelling Acoustic Scattering via Fractal Mesh Decomposition - Does free speech build or break a community?
This essay was written by Lower Sixth Form student Marcus Perkins for submission to the prestigious, national Karen Becher Essay Competition 2025, run by the National Holocaust Museum, which he went on to win. A full copy of the essay can be found below. A brief extract is included here: Communities are fragile concepts (Bauman, 2000). Most people struggle to… Read more: Does free speech build or break a community?
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