@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"

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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.