Tower and Town, April 2023 (view the full edition)EditorialFor the April 2023 edition of ‘Tower and Town’ pupils of Marlborough College have contributed work inspired by the Mound that lies at the very heart of the school and by the chalk that forms so much of the land around us. From the College website on the Mound Project: The majestic Neolithic mound, supposedly the place where Merlin is buried, stands at the centre of our campus and has long been a special place for our community and part of the Marlburian soul. We lead our busy daily lives enriched by the shadow of four and a half thousand years of human aspiration, endeavour and creativity. Across the academic year 2021 and 2022, art scholars and art teachers created their highly regarded collective response to the enduring history and archaeology of the Marlborough Mound. This has produced a beautiful portfolio of work containing 50 individual prints by the contributing artists which were exhibited in the Mount House gallery at the end of the last academic year. From the College website on the Marlborough Chalk Project: This new project, spear-headed by the academic scholars, aims to capture and present some of the qualities of the College, its history and its area. ‘Marlborough Chalk’ refers both to the land below and around us – the wonderful chalk downland which has sustained such rich and varied civilisations for thousands of years – as well as the tradition of pedagogy represented by the College (‘chalk’ once being pretty common in classrooms!). The articles, written by pupils and members of Common Room, will be about anything and everything connected to these topics. Richard Sandall |