#OnThisDay Head Master Thomas William Jex-Blake was born in 1832. He was also an OR and Assistant Master to Rugby.

OR Rupert Brooke is one of our most famous Poets you can find a biography in our Roll of Honour rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/RollofHonour.a… #SchoolPoetry

It's the start of a new month on Monday and we have some more topics for you to Tweet about. #FromTheArchives #SchoolSocieties #SchoolSportsandGames #SchoolMusic #SchoolGreek

#SchoolPoetry The Meteor July 9th 1872

This week share your memories of #FromTheArchive

#OnThisDay in 1913 OR Richard John Beattie Seaman Gran Prix Driver was born. At Rugby School from 1926-1930.

It's a 100 years of Hockey at Rugby School this year with the first and only match (of that year) played in 1921 - Staff and School v Rugby Town @TheRugbyTown @rugbysch_hockey #SchoolSportand Games #…

Tell us about your memories of (Image The Meteor 1979)

This week share your memories of learning or teaching Greek at school #SchoolGreek #FromTheArchive

It's the start of a new month on Monday and we have some more topics for you to Tweet about. #FromTheArchive #SchoolLatin #SchoolEnglish #SchoolMaths #SchoolAlumni #SchoolFirsts

This week share your memories of learning or teaching Latin at school #SchoolLatin #FromtheArchive

We can't wait to get planning what to post in April twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

#OnThisDay in 1793 OR William Macready was born. New Big School was named after him.

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Happy In 1868 the Rev. T W Jex-Blake's House held two debates on Literature. “That the literature of modem times is superior to that of ancient times“ and "That works of fiction are not bene­ficial t…

Rugby School Debating Society 1869 On Tuesday, 11th May, Mr. Shirley moved :- “That the teaching of Latin and Greek in the present system of School edu­cation is preposterously prominent.” #FromtheAr…

We had better get our thinking caps on then. twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Today is and our theme this week is In debating society meeting in 1888 Mr. Sharp proposed “That the English women novelists of this century have done more for literature than the male.” bit.ly/3rdGY…

In 1899 also included: Modern History Geography Composition and Literature #FromTheArchives

A number of Old Rugbeians are well known authors including Thomas Hughes who wrote Tom Brown's School Days. #HBAHBooks #SchoolEnglish #FromTheArchives

@OMearaChris1 @HistoryRugby Thank you for sharing this with us was that the one mentioned in The Meteor in May 1968?

@ArchiveTrinity Welcome to Twitter. I hope you'll join us and @SchoolArchives1 for the last couple of weeks of.

Next week is Do you remember performing in a Shakespeare play at school and which one was it? #SchoolEnglish #FromTheArchives

@CharterhouseAr3 @SchoolArchives1 Same here!

This week share your memories of learning or teaching Maths at school. #SchoolMaths #FromtheArchive

In 1902 Mathematics was scheduled for 4 hours if you were in the Upper Fifth Classical Side. #SchoolMaths #FromTheArchives

Can you answer these Mathematics Questions from the 1926 Rugby School Scholarship Paper? #SchoolMaths #FromTheArchives

While we hold a number of Dr Thomas Arnold's records in the collection we also hold some for Mary Arnold including her handwritten account of her Husband's death in 1842. #WomensHistoryMonth

In March 1882 Matthew Bloxam gave a paper On the Civil Costume of Gentlemen in Shakespeare's Age. #ShakespeareWeek pic.twitter.com/1ERKQa2xuN

In July 1867 Rugby School examined pupils knowledge of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar #ShakespeareWeek

RT @wrugbymuseum: As the Rugby Football Union celebrates its 150th year, we examine six influential governing bodies and their roles in the…

This week we want to know about your. Rugby School Alumni are known as Old Rugbeians. #FromtheArchive

#WomensHistoryMonth As part of the work on our collections we have been looking at books written and illustrated by ORs and Masters. This one was created by Annie Barnard, we think she was the daught…

The Old Rugbeian Society (now the Rugbeian Society) produced a number of publications including Annotated Register, Football Records of Rugby School, Rugby School Crick Teams from 1831 and Football T…

In 1902 it cost One Sovereign to join the Old Rugbeian Society

#OnThisDay in 1887 OR Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes surgeon and author was born. His brother the economist John Maynard Keynes was at Eaton.

@CasparHobbs Are you asking which house he was in? If so Brooke's House is now known as School Field.

@CasparHobbs ahh I see, thank you, It's such a shame that you can't edit Tweets.

#OnThisDay in 1887 OR Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes surgeon and author was born. His brother the economist John Maynard Keynes was at Eton.

Did you know that Lewis Carroll and Arthur Ransome attended Rugby School? #SchoolAlumni #fromthearchives

This is the last week of and we are ending on One of our firsts is William Webb Ellis running with the ball in 1823.

I'm not sure if Gertrude Hayes is the first female Art Mistress but certainly the first we have a record of. Gertrude Hayes taught during 1914-1918 and we hold some of her etchings in our collection.…

Records of The Crick run have been kept since 1837. The first record run was completed by E B Kellett in 1889, 12 1/4 miles in 1 hour 15 minutes 15 seconds. (can you see when his time was beaten?) #S…

We are the Rugby School Archives and Special Collections and hold a variety of material from letters to photographs to art work to vinyl records. We look forward to sharing more over the next 30 days…

#WhereYouStarted We are currently trying to build an administrative history of our archives but it probably started with our foundation documents and the Will of Lawrence Sheriff #Archive30

For we have some of Sanitorium Equipment, record books and a photograph from the Old San. #Archive30

#Archive30 day 4 it's Here is the smallest cricket bat and ball in our collection.

RT @RugbySchool1567: Happy Easter everyone #wholepersonwholepoint