Apart from Town and School, all houses took the name of their House Master until 1930, when Sheriff House was built. In February 1931 Cotton and Tudor were named, with Bradley being the last, in 1945…

Congratulations to Magdelen College School Archive @MCSOxford on achieving Archive Service Accreditation status 🥂

Queen's Medal, which has the head of Queen Victoria on one side, and which was given each year for the History essay prize from 1848, is a Wyon Medal, which was used as the template for the Penny Bla…

Hurray it's the first day of Our archive is an exciting mix of records, objects, textiles and art work as well as many other items and we look forward to sharing with you what we have put together wh…

RT @OundleArchive: Part of a letter written by the 1st XI cricket Captain in 1948 to a member of the team congratulating him on gaining his…

#Archive30 day 2 This photograph of Sir John Herschel taken in 1867 is one of our favourite items as it was taken by Julia Margaret Cameron a British photographer who is considered one of the most im…

Good Morning, because we can't walk up our path to work today here is our Archive Relocation Project Manager's career path.

RT @Archiefeducatie: 2 My is the of Hendrik Brouwer (1769-1837) Open it and step right into the fascinatin…

RT @CovUniArchives: day 3: archivist Gary's path in archives e.g. work at Hereford, Unilever, @Liverpoollib, @UniKe…

Today we are going to share our Collection of The Meteor a chronical of life at Rugby School and was first published on 7th February 1867. Copies from 1867-2018 can be found online rugbyschoolarchive…

Day 5 our recent is having the will of founder Lawrence Sheriff cleaned.

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RT @CovUniArchives: day 5: @CovUniLibrary staff helping to re-sleeve marketing & estates photos into proper pac…

#SomethingNew for day 6 Here is one of our recent accessions Framed watercolour by Roy Foster of the unveiling of the William Webb Ellis statue in Rugby

RT @BalliolOxford: Here’s Balliol Library’s for day 2: the Rugby School 5th form notebook of the poet Matthew Arn…

RT @RgsArchives: Day 7 is. We have had quite a few famous ONs over the years (our houses are named after 4 of the…

RT @CharterhouseAr3: Day 7 Over the last 400 years many pupils and members of staff have walked through our doo…

RT @ArchiveHashtag: Message from @ARAScot - unfortunately, retweeting all your fabulous posts has caused Twitter to block our ac…

RT @OundleArchive: The inscribed plate of 1593 (one of the oldest relics in the School) brought back to life by @HConservation #Conservatio…

Its day 7 of and time for. For us it has to be something relating to William Webb Ellis who picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the style of play.

In 1967 Rugby School celebrated the opening of the Queen's Gates by Queen Elizabeth II. The event was filmed by J B Tyson a School Master and adventurer. We recently had this digitised by @MACEarchiv…

Not really but a rumour These were removed from Upper Bench sometime between 1875 and 1886. Boys were permitted to carve their names here before they left school. It is rumoured that some boys paid t…

RT @RugbySchool1567: You can listen to Dan McLean discussing his book Rugbeians in the Great War on the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast A…