#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

@CasparHobbs I think The Meteor from 2009 has the answer. Last mention of it taking place is 1978 but not sure when it stopped/changed name.

@CasparHobbs According to the book "with a fine disregard" it stopped in 1987.

The Close in 1850

@AncientLoyal_ Yes Gilbert's was based on Hight Street for a while. I think they were at one time both based on Matthew Street (School Street on here). No worries at all I think this is the quod now …

@Lorunse_Renulds No sorry, we will try and find out.

School Field and Rackets in the 1890s

RT @RugbySchool1567: Not long left to enter the 2023 art competition! Enter now for the chance to win some great prizes https://t.co/U9q…

We're taking part in. Theme for today is. This is one of the trees beautifully decorated by our TRR colleagues.

#FestiveFood Poem from The Meteor December 16th 1952 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

Day 3 of

RT @RugbySchool1567: The Webb Ellis commemorative plaque has been restored ahead of the 200th anniversary Thank you to the Rugbeian Commun…

Here is one of our mannequins in his #12daysofarchives

A desk toy in the archive office #Toys

Not really but school traditions held up by the XV. From The Meteor October 1897. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/… #12DaysOfArchives

RT @RugbySchool1567: We are delighted to announce we are hosting @EnglandRugby women’s U18 team vs @WelshRugbyUnion women’s U18 on Sunday…

We forgot to tell the story of The legend of the combat between Guy Earl of Warwick and the dun cow on Dunsmore Heath near Rugby. so our present to you ... Matthew Bloxam told the story in The Meteor…

#snow

T W Jex-Blake with his. #12DaysOfArchives

RT @RugbySchool1567: Merry Christmas! We hope you are having a wonderfully festive day #wholepersonwholepoint

#ThenAndNow Thomas Arnold's desk in c1900 and 2022.

The School House dinning hall.

The Chemical Laboratory c1900

The Head Master's garden c1900

Masters and students in the Temple Speech Room. probably for King Edward VII's visit in 1909.