RT @archivehour: Just two weeks until this month's Christmas hosted by @ARAFSPG on creative archives. This includes an Archive…

#OTD (1920) OR John Stanley Hawkesworth, (Michell 1934-1939, Artist. Art Director/Tv Dramatist/Producer. His best known works include 'Upstairs Downstairs', 'Duchess of Duke Street', ‘#SherlockHolmes…

Each of the used to have their own outdoor caps, which are on display in the #FromTheArchive

RT @hugh_barrow: 150 years ago this week a football team from Glasgow ventured across the border and played Liverpool and Manchester in suc…

RT @Bettsy51: William Webb Ellis Plaque, @RugbySchool1567 commemorating 200th anniversary of birth and of game between Rugby school and Mer…

A slightly more up to date version of the House following-up caps. #SchoolHouses

Old Quad hasn't changed much over the years (image 1843) twitter.com/HistoryRugby/s…

@WarwickAlive @RugbySchool1567 I will have a look at life after Arnold and Rouse's History of Rugby School see what I can find

@WarwickAlive @RugbySchool1567 I have had a look at a few different sources for this and can't pinpoint an exact date but I know that plans for New Quad were submitted in 1860 and although Temple pla…

@WarwickAlive @RugbySchool1567 also mention of architectural changes to the Old Quad in an issue of The Meteor printed in October 1893 but not what these are. bit.ly/36XBPfb I will keep an eye out fo…

We hold a range of records for in our collection including sports annals, fasties, photographs, albums and even a few pieces of memorabilia. #FromTheArchive

A more up to date version of our House symbols on a plate made to commemorate the exploits of a certain pupil. Do you know who the pupil was and what they did? #SchoolHouses

@Frederic Thanks, possibly it looks very similar to Mitchell House caps

RT @AshmoleanMuseum: Did you know that, despite what we see in most museum collections today, Classical statues were actually very vibrantl…

@sps_kayton Me too! there is a rugby top in the archive with this symbol sewn on and the house tie with skulls on it.

Photograph of a boys study I believe it is one that was in school house as the description states it was formally occupied by the author of Tom Brown's School Days who was in School House under Thoma…

@sps_kayton 😂 belive it or not at one point in the late nineteenth century the school had a pet cockatoo. I will post the photo later.

Wonder if anyone else has had letters from insects in their natural history collections? A "Mouldy Bug" once wrote to The Meteor in February 1876 and received a response in the March issue.

The Reply to the "Mouldy Bug"

@sps_kayton

In reply to St Paul's school archivist asking if had a parrot. We don't know but the school did keep birds at one point. twitter.com/RugSch_Heritag…

@PFdn_Archives I discovered this one in an album from 1902 the photo below shows some more birds in an aviary.

@sps_kayton I haven't seen one. Might have a look in the natural history society records.

This week is all about. We're looking forward to finding out what it was like in school in the winter months.

The cover of The Meteor in 1970. Read the full issue rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

The Close and Butterfield Chapel 2016. #SchoolWinter

@CLCArchive fantastic picture you should join us with with these :-)

RT @RugbySchool1567: A Christmas message from the Executive Head Master about The Arnold Foundation Watch it here: https://t.co/juDgwkuNl…

@NThorpeBS @BromsPrep @OldBromsgrovian The facial expression says it all!

Part of our collection includes a number of Old Rugbeian Society and Rugbeian Society publications and their supplements. This one is for school Christmas cards. #SchoolWinter

An editorial in The Meteor in April 1871 described Rugby as our winter game. #SchoolWinter

#BehindtheScenes More time taking an idepth look at what is on the shelves today's finds include four papers written by Thomas Arnold

@VadeMcum2 Thank you for sharing with us :-)

Piano pieces played in classes Xmas 1908 #SchoolWinter

#OTD in 1950 the School held a concert reported in The Meteor.

#OTD in 1889 the Old Rugbeian Society (now the Rugbeian Society) was founded. Images - Old Rugbeians' Ball 1909 and Rugby V ORs 1922