The History Boys

Name: The History Boys
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006

2006 · Movie · 5 locations

Drama

United Kingdom

The History Boys has 5 confirmed filming locations in United Kingdom.

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Cutler's Grammar School
The boys attend classes and interact with their teacher Hector at the school.
Watford Grammar School for Boys
Meeting Outside Church
Posner meets Scripps outside St Thomas Church while cycling along Claremount Road.
Claremount Road
Receiving Exam Results
Lockwood nervously receives his exam results from the postman outside Munden View.
Munden View
Reciting at Memorial
The boys recite Philip Larkin's poem MCMXIV at the WWI memorial in the park.
Hullen Edge Park
School Trip to Abbey
The boys visit Fountains Abbey for a lesson on the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Fountains Abbey

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The History Boys has 5 confirmed filming locations in United Kingdom. Use the map and location list below for addresses, coordinates, and scene-by-scene details.

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