Researchers are welcome to visit the archive on an appointment basis. The archivist can assist with research and by prior arrangement can give tours of the school to individuals and groups. As the archive collection is spread across three sites booking in advance ensures that the desired documents are available. The main groups within the collection are:
- Governors’ minutes
- Sedbergian Magazines
- House Magazines
- ‘Brown Book’ termly rolls
- Admission Records
- Administrative and financial records
- Records of Sports, Clubs and Societies
- House photographs
- Military Records of Sedberghian WW1 and WW2 casualties
- Estate papers and building plans
- Special Collections library
- Portraits, landscape paintings and works on paper
- School Uniforms
- Trophies
- 19th Century scientific equipment
- Mid twentieth century school memorabilia
- Collections of personal papers, photographs and memories of Sedbergh School given by Old Sedberghians