#ArchiveZ R is for Rugby School Been hard to choose for this letter so keep an eye out for more posts this week.

R is for Football Here are some of the archives on the origins of the game and the rules written by the boys in 1845. #ArchiveZ

R is for Rugbeian - a person educated at Rugby School The name has also been used in titles of school publications Rugbeian (First Published 1851) New Rugbeian (First Published 1858) Other publicatio…

Not taking any Covid-19 chances at Rugby School Archives

Meeting in New Big School September 1890 #ThrowbackThursday The Meteor 1890 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

Been working on listing the collections in one of our store rooms and now trying to work out what this hat was for. #BehindTheScenes #ExploreYourArchive

@HistoryHelen123 @explorearchives 😂 got them on the brain have you? We're thinking a hat perhaps for a drama performance. An easier view of the top.

R is for and Today I have been reading and recording the temperature and relative humidity (another R) in our store rooms. #ArchiveZ #ExploreYourArchive #BehindTheScenes

S is for Skyros the Greek Island where OR Rupert Brooke is buried. While sorting through some of our objects and artefacts I came across these Olive Tree Roots found by Rupert Brookes grave in 1973. …

@OundleArchive I think that is probably the best result ever!

S is for small and in sorting through our collections come across some very small cricket bats. #ArchiveZ #BehindtheScenes #ExploreYourArchive

Just finished looking through the collection of objects in one of our stores which includes this refill for a 1920s fire extinguisher. #BehindtheScenes #ExploreYourArchive

RT @RugbySchool1567: New magazine 'The Rugby Pioneer' has arrived today The essays collected here represent a dialogue between the past an…

House Runs in September 1880 #ThrowbackThursday The Meteor 1880 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @OakhamArchives: On this day in 1877, William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, died. @OakhamSch, the Photographic Society collect…

Today we have Augmented Reality but in the past we had the immersive experience of the stereoscope which is this weeks find of the week and another S. I found this one in one of our store rooms with …

Get ready for Day on 7th or 8th October depending on where you are in the world. Got a question about our Archives or what we are up to Tweet us on Day. twitter.com/ArchiveHashtag…

T is for Tosh, Temple Observatory, Temple Reading Room and Temple Speech Room. #ArchiveZ

RT @RoyalHistSoc: On the RHS blog: Beatriz Pichel, Katherine Rawlings and Jennifer Wallis consider some of the risks of making historical i…

RT @TGAArchive: We have some exciting news! History & tradition are vitally important to the @GlasgowAcademy community & over the last year…

T is also for Timetable #ArchiveZ

House News for September 1870. The Meteor 1870 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

We've got an for you to help us with especially if you are an OR. Does anyone remember this model ship which was in the TRR. We would like to know how it was acquired and if it has a name. #BehindThe…

U is for Upper Bench #ArchiveZ

@BBCArchive do you have any footage of an episode of from 2008/2009 featuring Rugby School playing Rugby Football to show the development of the game over 150 years?

Interesting? typo or spoof?

It's the last day of September so it's our last post before changes to. This week I have been sorting through our vast collection of School Magazines creating complete sets and weeding out duplicates…

@smcarchives I know when I go to the store this afternoon I'll share a picture of my duplicate piles :-)

@MGS_Archives @MGSMagic @MGS_PEandSport Great image, got to love a good action shot. Here's one from our 1902 album.

Happy National Sporting Heritage Day! Here are some pictures from the Sports section of our Museum. #SportingHeritage

It wouldn't be National Sporting Heritage Day without mentioning a certain event in 1823. #NSHD2020

@smcarchives My very satisfying disposal pile (please note I don't mean destruction)

Prince Alamayu of Abyssinia was a pupil at Rugby School from 1874 to 1877. He was in Elsee's House now Kilbracken (then on Hillmorton Road). He died in 1879 and was buried at St George's Chapel, Wind…

#OTD in 1873 "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket Sir Pelham Francis Warner AKA Plum Warner was born. He was a student here 1887-1892 and was in Whitelaw House. On the XI team from 1889-1892. #Cric…

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We'll let the TVW Magazine from 1877 tell you what V stands for #ArchiveZ

RT @RugbySchool1567: The latest version of Page Polyglotte, our Modern Languages magazine, is live now. Read it here: https://t.co/XYDDevsa…

Got a burning question about our collections, our projects or the history of Rugby School then why not get in touch by us today on day #askanarchivistday

#TBThursday Find out about Sunday Concerts in October 1930 in The Meteor. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?…

The Bloxamian A Weekly Magazine October 14th to December 16th 1911 devoted to the interests of Bloxam House. Includes an interesting detective story "The Stolen Picture" featuring the great detective…

W is for Whitelaw Cap #ArchiveZ

W is also for William Webb Ellis He entered the school after midsummer 1816 when Dr John Wooll DD was Head Master. #ArchiveZ

RT @explorearchives: W is for WEBSITE! Interested in learning more about archives? Want some resources to help you teach others about arch…

Thank you @OxonMuseum! We have many ORs who went to Oxford but I thought we would share this print we need to investigate the provenance of

#OTD in 1920 the Debating Society discussed a motion condemning the cinema. The full report on this debate can be found in The Meteor November 1920. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?…

X is for another publication from the Members of Rugby school X.Y.Z a rival to T.V.W and The Meteor first published in 1878. #ArchiveZ

#OTD in 1822 the author of Tom Brown's School Days, Thomas Hughes was born. He entered the School in February 1834 age 11. He boarded in School House and his Head Master was Thomas Arnold. Not sure w…

@VadeMcum2 @RugbySchool1567 Thank you for this, isn't it interesting how the ages of the pupils entering and leaving varied in nineteenth century.