THE LAST OF THE SEA-KINGS from Rugby Miscellany, a school magazine published in 1845 and 1846. The poem is 4 pages long and says to be continued... #NationalPoetryDay

The inside of the old chapel at Rugby School built by Hakewill.

RT @ICSHC: From Tom Brown's School Days, the evolution of football codes, rugby union and Pierre de Coubertin's vision for the modern Olymp…

Image of the Lower TRR.

A XV cap from the 1950s. It has three stripes on the peak to represent the three years the owner was on the team. #sportingheritage #sportshistory

#OTD in 1894 a committee was appointed by the Old Rugbeian Society to investigate the origins of the game. They wrote to many Old Rugbeians and kept responses in this book including letters from Thom…

Payne-Smiths House today known as Cotton in 1894.

We really enjoy updating and adding new material to our exhibits in the Museum. The book on the left is a record of Rugby Football matches played from 1850s to 1890s.

Really looking forward to this. are encouraging members of the public to join in so do share your memories of Rugby School during week. twitter.com/explorearchive…

Researching your this autumn? If you think one of your ancestors attended Rugby School after 1675 you can search our annotated registers online - rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/authenticated/… #digitalarc…

Hockey XI of 1924 Hockey really took off at Rugby in 1921 though some attempts were made to introduce the game before this date. #SportsHistory #SportingHeritage

#OTD in 1822 (although our registers say 19th October) Thomas Hughes was born. Hughes was in School House from 1834 and joined the same year as his brother George.

Rugby v The Butterflies 1922. It's great that we can find articles from The Meteor to complement photographs in our archives.

#OTD in 1821 David Smyth Barttelot was born. He was an English cricketer. Barttelot's batting style is unknown. Joined Rugby School in 1833 with his brother Walter both in Anstey/Stanley.

Whitelaw's XX in 1884

@Frederic They're house caps. At one time you would decorate your house cap to show your sports awards if you didn't have a Following-up cap.

#OTD in 1907 Princess Henry of Battenberg visited Rugby School. The Head of School P Guedalla read the address.

The XV in 1917 and the XV in the 2017 issue of The Meteor.

Photograph of some banjo players c1890s possibly played for the Rugby Mission Club in Notting Hill. #SchoolArchives #SchoolMusic

You can search our school magazine The Meteor using the advanced search on our digital archive site. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Authenticated/… #Digitalarchives

RT @RugbySchool1567: Our new book, Pass the Pig’s Bladder, celebrates 200 years of rugby football An essential read for any rugby fan! Fe…

#OTD in 1923 The Centenary Match was played on The Close to celebrate 100 years of. Rugby School's new book, Pass the Pig’s Bladder, celebrates 200 years of rugby football Buy the book here: rugbysch…

Rugby School House Rackets Final 1892.

From the Laws of Football as played at Rugby School 1846. "If, in the case of a run in, the ball be held in a scrummage, it shall not be lawful for the holder to transmit it to another of his own sid…

Notes by Arthur Stanley (Later Dean Stanley), which he wrote as a boy while being lectured by Thomas Arnold.

#OTD two first class English cricketers were born. Trevor Bowring in 1887 and Edward Hugh Falkwin Bradby in 1866.

Transplantation of the elm tree 1865

This is the Rugby School War Register. It was created after the First World War recording the names of 1001 Old Rugbeians who fought in that war. 682 of those names appear on the walls of the Memoria…

RT @RugbySchool1567: Tomorrow the whole school will gather on The Close to remember the six hundred and eighty-two former students who died…

#OTD in 1932 Donald Michie FRSE FBCS was born. He was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, …

#Musuem30 Trees on The Close on a winter's day. You can just make out the Chapel and School House in the background.

For we give you the first page of the first edition of The Meteor published February 7th 1867.

RT @ICSHC: @RugSch_Heritage

It was a very early start if you were an upper classical side student at Rugby School in 1902. At least you had a 2 hour and 45-minute in the afternoon.

On August 25th 1845 three boys were appointed to write the rules of football (Rugby). On 28th August they became the laws of the School. #Origin

#OTD in 1882 Percy Wyndham Lewis was born. He was an English writer, painter, and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticist…