#OTD in 1927 Geoffrey Atkins, World Rackets Champion was born. He was in Town from 1940-1945.

Yesterday we were sorting through a Rugby School XI wooden chest which held a duck egg blue cricket cap and a duck egg blue shirt. #SchoolBlues #sportshistory #Cricket

@CasparHobbs The modern one is a slightly brighter shade

RT @TomosEvans01: “Most shameful of men!” A very angry Greek letter from Rugby head Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) to a friend who has insulted…

Earlier this month @HistoryRugby hosted their first @ahrcpress doctoral intern @TomosEvans01 on the project 'Schools of Empire: Class and Colonialism, c. 1750–1945', and already there have been some …

1975 was the first year that girls were involved in the Middle School play at Rugby in an "experimental production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice." #SchoolDiversity rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk…

These images are of a very early wireless reception outside of London c1921. They show E R Thomas head of Science and students experimenting with the wireless at Rugby School. Found in one of the sto…

@hugh_barrow That's very interesting, that some of the players stayed in the Gymnasium

RT @hugh_barrow: Quite an occasion @RugSch_Heritage

The West end of the first Chapel, c1843

First up for organs in New Big School and the Temple Speech Room

Over 80 years ago in February 1929, plans for a new house at Rugby School were agreed to. Sheriff was the third house to be permanently named, opening with 20 boys in September 1930.