This week is week for the @SchoolArchives1 Twitter campaign so we thought we would start this week with some more resent image of the grounds. twitter.com/RugbySchool156…

In 1976 the first Sixth Form Girls joined the School. The first House was Crescent In 1992 Rugby School became fully Co-educational when the first 13 year old girls arrived at the School. In 1995 the…

Artwork showing our in the nineteenth century #EYAArt

Some maps showing the

The School's longest running magazine is The Meteor started in February 1867. #SchoolPublications @SchoolArchives1

According to The Sybil (1890-1895 - a literary magazine containing essays and poetry) the first Rugby School Newspaper was published in June 1710 – reprinted in part in The Sybil October 30 1894. It …

Brownsover by George Barnard #EYAArt

RT @rugbeiancom: Today's is thanks to our fabulous team at @RugSch_Heritage. Maps of the school grounds, and specificall…

RT @LilyTekseng: Kickstarted my placement with the History Department at @RugbySchool1567 on their project. The last 48 h…

RT @LilyTekseng: But back to the romance. Here's an unindexed(-dexable?), pretty colour negative of a "Village Boy" somewhere in India. @Ru…

RT @LilyTekseng: The 4 boys joined a longish list of political wards who spent their formative years in British public schools, to be educa…

RT @LilyTekseng: Chance encounters allow us a glimpse into the connectedness of different pasts. For ex, this is the packet which carried t…

RT @LilyTekseng: As much as I love the archive for the intellectually generative possibilities that it engenders, what I really enjoy is th…

RT @LilyTekseng: British public schools & its transplants in the colonies were absolutely essential institutional nodes of fostering + sup…

In the 1860s and 70s writers of The Meteor were using the word assembly to describe the gathering of the Bigside Levee. #SchoolAssemblies

A summary of Speech Day July 1928 #SchoolAssembies rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

#EYAART Old Big School 1816 from Ackermann.

This archive tells the story of Rugby School from 1567 to the present day. #YourArchive #Archive30

We don't have a here at the archives as we are working on a number of projects. One of these projects is repackaging our collection of House and Following Up Caps. #Archive30

We say this every year but our mannequins are truly the scariest things in our collection. #SomethingScary #Archive30

#SomethingBig At 3ft - resin replica of Graham Ibbeson's William Webb Ellis statue in Dunchurch Road, Rugby (unveiled in 1997).

RT @SchoolArchives1: That's a wrap folks! Thank you to everyone who took part in the latest @SchoolArchives1 twitter campaign. It's been fa…

From the 1880s to the 1940s Rugby School had an art museum in the Upper Temple Reading Room. Some of the objects from this collection remain at the School but their stories have been lost in time. Ho…

Our San collection contains objects like these, photographs and record books. #HealthArchives #Archive30

Part of our natural history collection

@flygirlNHM They were given to the School's Natural History Society which existed from 1867 to the early 2000s. All labelled in Latin and part of a larger collection we hope to get the labels transla…

#YourWorkplace as it was in the late nineteenth century early twentieth century

Our can be found here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk #Archive30

We are trying to find out where this piece of stained glass came from. It is currently on display @RugbyGallery in their Every Object Tells a Story Exhibition. #ArchiveMystery #Archive30

#Archive30 Many think that William Webb Ellis picked the ball up. He didn't he caught it.

#ConservationWin we are really looking forward to @TinMillPress starting work on our Foundation Documents in July this year. #Archive30

One of our volunteers has been working on repackaging and describing our Bloxam. A collection of artefacts collected/curated by Matthew Bloxam. #Archive30

#Archive30 Piffer anyone?

It's really hard to choose a favourite item from our collection. One of the items we really like is this book of illustrations by Anne Barnard the daughter of George Barnard who was an Art Master at …

Currently sorting and repackaging one of our smaller store rooms and came across this book. What a fantastic title

#Archive30 Always use pencil and know where your sharpener is.

Essential on the way to work? (When it's sunny of course). #Archive30

#ArchiveInclusion is about making sure that our archive is accessible. If you have a research topic you are exploring or a query we might be able to help you with then why not get in touch with us vi…

Rugby School was founded by Lawrence Sheriff's will in 1567. This contemporary copy of the will is one of the oldest documents in the collection relating to the history of the School. #WhereYouStarte…

One of our largest is the Death Cart which is on display in the Museum. When boys were injured on the football (Rugby) field it was used to carry them off to the Sanatorium. It was used up until the …

#ArchiveOutreach This year we have loaned two items to Museums for their exhibitions. @DesignMuseum have the nine caps artwork and @RugbyGallery have a piece of stained glass. #ArchiveObject #Designi…

#Archive30 here are some of our on display in our Museum representing: Cross Country, Fives, Cricket, Rugby and Rackets.

#ArchivePeople The first curator of the Art Museum was Thomas Mitchener Lindsay, Teacher of Drawing. He taught at the School from 1880-1907. As well as still holding some of the objects he would have…

A mini Cassette Tape, hopefully one day we will find out what is on it. #Archive30

#SomethingNew (recently rediscovered) Printing blocks for The Meteor and photographs of a sports day event. #Archive30

A photograph of T W Jex-Blake and family, 1863, when he was an Assistant Master at Rugby School and House Master of the house which is now named Kilbracken. He then went on to be Principal of Chelten…

A photograph of cricket being played on New Bigside in 1865. School Filed and the Rackets Courts can be seen in the background.

@DCArchives Unfortunately there is no provenance with this photograph to tells us why the image was taken in this way.