Tweet 02/02/2022 11:27 AM #SchoolMusic Alice Dukes was the first female music teacher appointed at Rugby School in 1919 and taught until 1949. She died in 1968. 0 0 2022 02/02/2022
Tweet 02/02/2022 12:30 PM @RadleyArchives Miss Dukes is possibly our second/third female teacher as we had Gertrude Hayes teaching art around the same time and the John Percival employed the first female teacher in an English… 0 0 2022 02/02/2022
Tweet 02/02/2022 01:53 PM @RadleyArchives This is the case for us as well, Miss Dukes is the first we can track through the registers and The Meteor. There are many other women before here who don't appear in the official rec… 0 0 2022 02/02/2022
Tweet 02/02/2022 01:54 PM @RadleyArchives ... we recently found Miss Kempster's personal notebook which needs further investigation to establish who she and her role at the school 0 0 2022 02/02/2022
Tweet 02/02/2022 02:02 PM @TomosEvans01 @HistoryRugby He entered the School in 1747 when Dr Knail was Headmaster 0 0 2022 02/02/2022
Tweet 03/02/2022 09:10 AM #EYAletters This is a collection of letters sent home by three brothers in 1813 and 1814: Colin Campbell, John Heyrick and Thomas Macaulay (Gascoigne House now extinct) #ExploreYourArchive 0 0 2022 03/02/2022
Tweet 04/02/2022 12:09 PM School Steeple Chase 1882 from a student's scrapbook of school photos from the 1880s. #Sporthistory #SportingHeritage 0 0 2022 04/02/2022
Tweet 07/02/2022 09:00 AM Rugby School was founded as a Free Grammar School for the boys of Rugby and Brownsover in 1567, in accordance with instructions attached to the Will of Lawrence Sheriff. #Schoolorigins 0 0 2022 07/02/2022
Tweet 08/02/2022 09:00 AM Origins of the current site on which the School stands: 1750 a move was made from the middle of the town to a manor house on the present site of School House. The images show the School on its presen… 0 0 2022 08/02/2022
Tweet 09/02/2022 09:17 AM #Schoolorigins It is believed that "The Model Young Master" in Tom Brown's School Days is based on George Edward Lynch Cotton. He went on to be elected Bishop of Calcutta in 1858 and founded a boys p… 0 0 2022 09/02/2022
Tweet 10/02/2022 09:16 AM Letters to the editor were a feature of The Meteor up to around 1967. We recently found an original from 1938 talking about William Wyamar Vaughan (Head Master 1921-1931) #EYALetters #ExploreYourArch… 0 0 2022 10/02/2022
Tweet 10/02/2022 10:18 AM @Frederic @jpstafford @wrugbymuseum @AvaHs_Sport @MuseeduSport @hugh_barrow @_philmcgowan @collinstony @bainescards1 @LydzFursey The earliest depiction of Rugby Football we is of a match in 1839 all … 0 0 2022 10/02/2022
