The Green Pavilion c1860

#OnThisDay in 1882 Alec Ogilvie was born, Michell 1896-1900, Invented and patented the world’s first airspeed indicator, and flew gliders with the Wright Brothers in 1908.

It's International Archives Day! To celebrate we will be Tweeting throughout the day with starting with and two elliptical coins from the collection.

#IAW2021 An illustration of House Caps c.1850s/60s.

Everything in our collection is special so we will share the 1845 rules of Rugby Football written by the boys of Rugby School.

#SomethingNew to us a map of the school from 1956. #IAW2021

#IAW2021 This painting by Theodore Howard Somervell is 217.4x137cm

It's a Swizzle Stick #IAW2021

#SomethingHairy from the Natural History Collection #IAW2021

#IAW2021 A stereoscope

In April 1871 the first article in The Meteor focused on Rugby Football in Scotland. #SomethingScottish rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

@Frederic They're wonderful and would look great in the stereoscope. The images that come with ours are early Twentieth century and mostly First World War.

The Tosh c1900

@PFdn_Archives @CrescentSchRug There is some footage of that Tosh from 1967 on the MACE website (about 11 minutes 15 seconds in to the film) macearchive.org/films/royal-vi…

#OnThisDay in 1795 Thomas Arnold was born. He was Head Master of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841.

RT @WilliamsMatt75: He was also a pupil at Warminster School from 1803-1807. We are very proud to have Arnold House as well as the Thomas A…

This is The Island by Edward Burrow

We'll have to get planning! twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Taking on board searched for on our digital archive and found this from 1877. Found out more about in 1877 on our digital Archive rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

This is a wonderful colour drawing of Upper Bench by Edward Burrow. Title - Old Sixth Form Room Rugby.

High Street in Rugby looks very different today when you walk towards Lawrence Sheriff Street. Drawing by Rudge Art Master at Rugby School 1824-1841. #LocalHistory

@LudovicoAriost3 Could be @TheRugbyTown do you know if that's where Gilbert's was?

We have lots of caps in the collection including some with embroidery inside.

Not sure when Fives was first played at Rugby but two Fives courts were built at the School 1859 but they didn't play against other schools until 1903. #SportHistory