#SchoolMusic Alice Dukes was the first female music teacher appointed at Rugby School in 1919 and taught until 1949. She died in 1968.

@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…

@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…

@RadleyArchives ... we recently found Miss Kempster's personal notebook which needs further investigation to establish who she and her role at the school

@TomosEvans01 @HistoryRugby He entered the School in 1747 when Dr Knail was Headmaster

#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

School Steeple Chase 1882 from a student's scrapbook of school photos from the 1880s. #Sporthistory #SportingHeritage

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

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…

#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…

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…

@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 …

In December 1880 Matthew Bloxam published an article in The Meteor telling the story of William Webb Ellis running with the ball. #SchoolOrigins rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

@Suzanne90658914 Thank you that looks the closest, perhaps it's a Rugbeian's cap who played for Hampshire.

@Frederic @jpstafford @wrugbymuseum @AvaHs_Sport @MuseeduSport @hugh_barrow @_philmcgowan @collinstony @bainescards1 @LydzFursey I think this one is a print, will have to look at the one in the Museu…

We've been comparing views of the Chapel and School House from Dunchurch Road with a photograph from 1932. Take a look here re.photos/en/compilation… via @www_re_photos

@TGAArchive @RugbySchool1567 @ScottyCricket @hugh_barrow @ScotRugbyBlog Thank you :-) we've also been pointed towards Hampshire Cricket Club who had a very similar cap with the crest and colour but n…

The Debating Society discussing prose and verse in 1878 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/… #SchollPoetry

#SchoolPoetry twitter.com/RugSch_Heritag…

This pitcher/jug was considered to be 14th century by Matthew Bloxam. It was found by workmen on 16th June 1885 at South East angle of the west turret of New Big School 7ft below present surface (as …

@hugh_barrow @TGAArchive @RugbySchool1567 @ScottyCricket @ScotRugbyBlog These are all Rugby School House Follow up caps, there is a possibility that this is a Tudor House anomaly as the Tudor Rose is…

RT @TomosEvans01: Samuel Butler’s (grandfather of the novelist Samuel Butler) Latin, Greek, and English themes as a school…

Chambers illustrations of Rugby Football.

#SchoolPoetry "Comrades in Arms" by P H B Lyon Head Master of Rugby School from 1931 to 1948. This Poem was published in volume 7 of "Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War".

Cross Country Run from 1902 #SchoolGames #SportingHeritage #SportsHistory

#SchoolGames Athletic Sports programme from 1889 #SportingHeritage #SportsHistory

@AberflyarfRFC @simonrug You might be able to find the answer on our digital archive rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Authenticated/… or you can submit an enquiry to us at archives@rugbyschool.net

RT @SchoolArchives1: Going out with a bang...what treasures do you have to share in the last few weeks of the @SchoolArchives1 twitter camp…

One of our volunteers continues to work on our Bloxam Collection which contains artefacts collected by Matthew Bloxam (1813-1820 Bloxam House now extinct) One of these items is an Etruscan Bronze Bro…

RT @TomosEvans01: 1913-18, 4 Tibetan boys were sent to ⁦@RugbySchool1567⁩ by the Dalai Lama to gain British military train…

Although there is evidence that was played by students at Rugby School in Houses a whole School Chess Club doesn't appear to have been formed until 1878. Image is of The Chess Cup for the best house …

Another cap in our collection we don't believe is a Rugby School one. Anyone seen it before? The manufacturer is Castell & Son 13 broad Street Oxford. #ArchiveMystery

@Carthusiana @univbc Thank you Dan, I have contacted @TheVarsityShop1 as well to see if they recognise it.

An image of the Temple Reading room in c1902 and then another from the 1990s. #SchoolBooks @SchoolArchives1 @TempleReading

RT @RugbySchool1567: Next year Rugby School and the rugby world celebrate 200 years since William Webb Ellis took the ball in his arms and…

This months theme is Each week we will share a piece from our collection. This is of the School in the 1840s