The traditional leather school satchel is the bag our workshop was built on. The Hanshaw family began making school satchels in Liverpool in 1966, and by the 1980s we were the last surviving traditional satchel maker in Britain. For decades the leather satchels we made were carried unbranded by schoolchildren and students across the country, and today every one carries our maker's mark discreetly on the back.

This collection brings together the bags most often chosen for school: the 11-inch, 12.5-inch, 14-inch and 15-inch classic satchels, along with the Mini Windsor and Small Portrait backpacks for those who prefer to carry on both shoulders. The smaller satchels suit primary school children, while the 14-inch and 15-inch satchels have room for the books, folders and kit that secondary school and sixth form demand. Our sizes describe the cut leather measured across the bag, so choose by what needs to go inside.

Every school satchel is made to order by hand in any of our 44 leathers and can be personalised with a hand-pressed name or initials. Add a bolt-on handle, a wider shoulder strap, backpack straps or hidden magnetic fasteners and push locks to suit the way it will be carried. A leather school satchel takes knocks, rain and years of daily use, and ours are backed by a five-year guarantee and a workshop that will repair them for as long as you keep them. It is a school bag made to be handed down.