#Museum30 a view through our stereoscope.

Join us for week from 28th November to 6th December. Our tweets will be based on these daily themes, so watch this space.

Some of the prizes awarded in June 1840 by the Trustees of Rugby School.

#OTD in 1806 William Webb Ellis was born in Salford. Next year we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of his decision to take the ball in his arms and run with it. #Rugby200

A drawing of Butterfield's #Museum30

These two maps show the changes to The Close from 1750 to 1886. #ExploreYourArchive

@Frederic It's in The Origin of Rugby Football published in 1897 by the Old Rugbeian Society. Digital copy will be available soon.

In chapter 9 of Tom Brown's School Days, Tom and his friend East climb the School House clock tower and inscribe their names on the hands of the clock. #EYATime has passed, and the clock has been cha…

RT @rugbeiancom: It’s day two of Explore Your Archives Week here at Rugby School. Today our Archivist Manager, Jenny Hunt is going to show…

It's day Here are some of our favourite images of beards in the collection. #ExploreYourArchive

Share your memories with us, we have a short oral history clip for you to listen to, which is being posted this afternoon. #EYAThrowback twitter.com/explorearchive…

#EYAThrowback Today we would like you to share your memories of Rugby School. Listen to John Nicholas Burrows talk about recording school concerts in the 1940s. #TBT With thanks to Jonathan Kempster …

Today we have been celebrating in the School Museum.

#EYANews We have just had some more of our archives digitised and hope to make them available early in the New Year, including photographs from the School House 1912-1918 photograph album. #ExploreYo…

We have been working on translating this poem written in Classical Greek c1840. It has been translated from classical to modern Greek and then into English. It includes mentions of famous Rugbeians a…

#ExploreYourArchive For today we have a review of the Dean House play from the 2001 edition of The Meteor. "An Evening with Victoria Wood".

Today is Day our archive documents a large part of Rugby School's history. For the Chapel a lot of this is done through artwork and photographs. This video shows the first Chapel the Butterfield Chap…

As it is day we would like to explore what is missing from our collection. When William Butterfield built the current School Chapel in 1872 he installed a Reredos mosaic behind the alter. This was re…

The central panel of the Reredos has remained at the School appearing in its various museums over the years. However a number of pieces are no longer here so we are trying to discover what happened t…

What's missing? 1/2 #EYAYourArchive As well as a central panel the Reredos included Mediaeval Saints, figures from the Old Testament and the four Evangelists. Depictions of St Louis and Abraham remai…

What's missing? 2/2 We would really like to discover what has happened to the rest of the pieces as described in the book "Rugby School Chapel" written in 1913. If you have any memories of the reredo…

Out and about today

Stop number 2

School House Cups 1916