@leics1975 Thank you thought they were, as I have a items few OR uniform in the same colours.

RT @explorearchives: Next week is our very exciting theme week! We won’t be travelling far this year so we’d love to see some archi…

RT @BeginsHistory: Playtime!!! Some historybeginsathome.org questions about 🗨️ What games did you play during breaks? 🗨️ Were…

It's time to get your thinking caps on. Any suggestions for what this object might be? #mysteryobject

@puggypugh @Carthusiana 😂 erm not sure about that one.

@Carthusiana Thanks Dan, I was thinking it might be a small stand for placing lecture cards on?

#HBAHSchool there are lots of drawings of Rugby School. Here are some from 1809-c1890 #HistoryBeginsAtHome Any one have any memories of School House?

RT @HistoryRugby: First Letters and Monastic Scribal Cultures published in JEH. Thanks to @LeverhulmeTrust @LeedsIMS @ju…

Thought we would join in with Week this week. For it has to be Here is our School Class Locomotive nameplate and London Midland and Scottish Railway Poster (1930s)

#ExploreYourArchive A number of our Old Rugbeian's have been explorers and travelled the world Including Howard Somervell who went on two expeditions to Everest in 1922 and 1924. We hold one of his p…

@CovUniArchives Don't forget about the one in Rackets with the Rugby Football Uniform and red cap on and a pair of arms.

RT @CovUniArchives: I also work at Rugby School @RugSch_Heritage where spooky mannequins (including cursed child in school uniform and one-…

K is for Key These were used by the Duty Master to lock the Old Quad gates. #ArchiveZ

Today was a little more difficult for but one way you can do this is through a telescope or observatory. This is an etching of the Temple Observatory and some of the observations made in 1878. #trave…

#WaystoTravel to school have changed over the years haven't they ... #ExploreYourArchive #Travel

Rupert Brooke was also a student at Rugby School. twitter.com/ARALearning/st…

Working in archives is like having your own. Today I'll be traveling through the history of our society's and sport's teams. #ExploreYourArchive

Today's find on these shelves, part of the Rugby School Natural History Society Collection.

@ARAArchMus Always looking for a chance to link Doctor Who or Sherlock Holmes to Archives. Thank you, I spend most of my time in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries but sometimes go back further. …

#OnThisDay in 1960 Rugby School's Orchestra performed Mozart's Overture.

RT @Carthusiana: Copies of my first book ‘Rugbeians in the Great War’ are still available online here: rugbeiansinthegreatwar.com/shop. Have a look…

L is for Languages These exercise books which I listed in a previous week contain and. #Classics #ArchiveZ

In July 1970 Rugby School's CCF went on summer camp with The 17TH/21ST Lancers to Munster. You can find more stories like this in copies of The Meteor 1867-2018 here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/authent…

#OTD in 1950 Whitelaw House held a reunion dinner for Old Rugbeians.

@OundleArchive We feel your pain, got this to look forward to.

@DCArchives @DulwichCollege Very interesting, last week I also came across our collection of books by and about Sir Pelham Warner on the Old Rugbeian Shelves.

M is for Michell House which has existed since 1841 and moved to it's current location in 1883. Here are a few of the items from Michell House archives. #ArchiveZ

@leics1975 Thanks Tim. I have to say that I was slightly confused by a fact sheet which had masters for this house before 1883 perhaps because the boys from the previous house moved to the new house …

@leics1975 Also just had a look at a list of Michell house Archives I found a few weeks ago (from 1977). Which has documents from 1862 but these must have come from the previous house perhaps with Gr…

@leics1975 Thank you, this is fabulous info I shall add this to the notes.

RT @UKNatArcEdu: The first two episodes of Time Travel Tots are out now! Join Emily & Dani the Storyteller as they delve into the records t…

Now that most of the listing is done I have the to have a more detailed look at handwriting in the collection. from a Poetry Prize Book and Manuscript written in the 1830s. #ExploreYourArchive

#OTD in 1930 the Old Rugbeians played against the Old Haileyburians. #sportshistory

N is for Natural History Collection which includes this Muskrat. #ArchiveZ

It's so we thought we would share two of the lions in our collection: a statue and a door knocker.

RT @HistEdSocUK: Take a look a the latest blog post on our website! Joanna Holmes writes about mid-Victorian teachers https://t.co/…

N is for Natural History Society. It's second meeting was reported in The Meteor in 1867. (12th April Issue). #ArchiveZ rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

I am of course referring to the Rugby School Natural History Society which covered many subjects not just animals, insects and fossils but railways and brass rubbings to.

Looking for what happened at Rugby School in the 1940s? Try searching past copies of The Meteor online rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx In August 1940 The Rugby Club's camped at.

O is for Old Big School #ArchiveZ

O is also for Old Quad #ArchiveZ

P is for plan (a detailed map) and here is one of the Close as it was in in 1749. #ArchiveZ

Happy Can you spot the dog in this drawing of Rugby School in the 1840s?

A fantastic image of a cross country run in 1902. #HBAHOutdoors

Looking forward to next months theme! #BehindTheScenes twitter.com/explorearchive…

Q is for Queen's visit and quatercentenary In 1967 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Rugby School to open the Queen's gate the 400th anniversary of the school. #ArchiveZ

Another Queen who visited Rugby School was Queen Adelaide in 1839. This is the cap which was worn by the boys of Rugby School in a Rugby match which took place during her visit to the School. #Archiv…

Bigside Run September 1900 #ThrowbackThursday The Meteor rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…