From Forms to Blocks Today students study in year groups, usually based on their age. However, this has not always been the case, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth century when groups were based on academic a… 0 2024 17/10/2024
The Exhibition of the telephone at Rugby School As part of its 300th Anniversary year in 1867, Rugby School founded a Natural History Society which would be active until the early 2000s. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, two ye… 0 2024 17/09/2024
Masters in the 1500s Rugby School was founded as grammar school in 1567 and in that century three Masters were appointed to run the School. Originally there was only one master (teacher) to teach the boys and run the Sc… 0 2024 12/09/2024
Rugby and Co-Education Part 1 In 1870 Frederick Temple was appointed chair of the Rugby School Governing Body. In 1871 he established The Laurels School, for the daughters of Rugby School Masters, the girls used the classrooms in… 0 2024 06/08/2024
The Great Rebellion of 1797 For this blog we are reprinting the story of The Great Rebellion which took place at Rugby School in November 1797. This version was published in The Laurentian February 1898. “We passed last term t… 0 2024 16/07/2024
Lawrence Sheriff[e] Rugby School was founded in 1567 by Lawrence Sheriff, who left money in his will for a Grammar School in the town of Rugby for local boys. This blog gives a short account of his life. According to s… 0 2024 01/07/2024
Arthur John Dorman (Michell 1895-1900) Arthur John Dorman joined Rugby School in 1895 and left for Trinity College Cambridge in 1900, his House Master was W G Michell. In 1899 he was made a member of the School XV and awarded a Following-… 0 2023 19/04/2023
Rugby Football in New Zealand The history of New Zealand rugby football starts with the New Zealand Nelson Football Club in 1870. In 1867, having turned 16, Charles J Monro left for England to be educated for a possible career i… 0 1870 09/02/2023
Rupert Brooke Biography Rupert Chawner Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Street Rugby on August 3, 1887. He was the third son of William Parker Brooke. During his childhood and as a pupil at Rugby School Rupert lived in Brook… 0 1887 01/02/2023
Dean, Geoffrey John, age 16 Cock 2nd House 1925 John Geoffrey Dean played the School XV from 1926-27. He debuted for the Harlequins in the February 14 England XV v Ireland match at Twickenham London 1931. According to the match report, ‘it was a c… 0 1925 01/02/2023
Association Football/Soccer at Rugby School Since the mid-eighteenth-century Rugby School has been playing a form of football distinctive from other forms of football. Association Football/Soccer was not played at the School until the late nin… 0 1871 01/02/2023
William Webb Ellis William Webb Ellis was born on 24th November 1806 in Salford in Lancashire. His father was James Ellis, a cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards, in 1809 he was made a Lieutenant of the 3rd Dragoon Guards,… 0 1806 01/02/2023
Following-up caps Definition - “Normally always *cap, a velvet cap in the holder’s individual house colours with gold or silver braid, awarded as School second XV colours (C19 to today). Originally, when the whole hou… 0 2023 01/02/2023
Tweet 04/01/2023 09:00 AM #OTD in 1850 Frederick York Powell (Blake/Kilbracken 1864-1866) was born, he was an English historian and scholar. 0 2023 04/01/2023
Tweet 03/01/2023 09:00 AM Happy New Year Are you ready to celebrate 200 years of Rugby Football? We are ... #rugby200 twitter.com/RugbySchool156… 0 2023 03/01/2023
Tweet 30/12/2022 09:00 AM Masters and students in the Temple Speech Room. probably for King Edward VII's visit in 1909. 0 2022 30/12/2022
Tweet 25/12/2022 07:59 PM RT @RugbySchool1567: Merry Christmas! We hope you are having a wonderfully festive day #wholepersonwholepoint 0 2022 25/12/2022
Tweet 21/12/2022 09:00 AM We forgot to tell the story of The legend of the combat between Guy Earl of Warwick and the dun cow on Dunsmore Heath near Rugby. so our present to you ... Matthew Bloxam told the story in The Meteor… 0 2022 21/12/2022
Tweet 20/12/2022 05:29 PM RT @RugbySchool1567: We are delighted to announce we are hosting @EnglandRugby women’s U18 team vs @WelshRugbyUnion women’s U18 on Sunday… 0 2022 20/12/2022
Tweet 20/12/2022 09:00 AM Not really but school traditions held up by the XV. From The Meteor October 1897. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/… #12DaysOfArchives 0 2022 20/12/2022
Tweet 16/12/2022 09:23 PM RT @RugbySchool1567: The Webb Ellis commemorative plaque has been restored ahead of the 200th anniversary Thank you to the Rugbeian Commun… 0 2022 16/12/2022
Tweet 15/12/2022 09:45 AM #FestiveFood Poem from The Meteor December 16th 1952 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/… 0 2022 15/12/2022
Tweet 14/12/2022 09:13 AM We're taking part in. Theme for today is. This is one of the trees beautifully decorated by our TRR colleagues. 0 2022 14/12/2022
Tweet 13/12/2022 04:25 PM RT @RugbySchool1567: Not long left to enter the 2023 art competition! Enter now for the chance to win some great prizes https://t.co/U9q… 0 2022 13/12/2022
Tweet 09/12/2022 07:32 PM @AncientLoyal_ Yes Gilbert's was based on Hight Street for a while. I think they were at one time both based on Matthew Street (School Street on here). No worries at all I think this is the quod now … 0 2022 09/12/2022
Tweet 09/12/2022 10:52 AM @CasparHobbs According to the book "with a fine disregard" it stopped in 1987. 0 2022 09/12/2022
Tweet 09/12/2022 10:39 AM @CasparHobbs I think The Meteor from 2009 has the answer. Last mention of it taking place is 1978 but not sure when it stopped/changed name. 0 2022 09/12/2022
Tweet 06/12/2022 10:15 AM What's missing? 2/2 We would really like to discover what has happened to the rest of the pieces as described in the book "Rugby School Chapel" written in 1913. If you have any memories of the reredo… 0 2022 06/12/2022
Tweet 06/12/2022 10:10 AM What's missing? 1/2 #EYAYourArchive As well as a central panel the Reredos included Mediaeval Saints, figures from the Old Testament and the four Evangelists. Depictions of St Louis and Abraham remai… 0 2022 06/12/2022
Tweet 06/12/2022 10:05 AM The central panel of the Reredos has remained at the School appearing in its various museums over the years. However a number of pieces are no longer here so we are trying to discover what happened t… 0 2022 06/12/2022
Tweet 06/12/2022 10:00 AM As it is day we would like to explore what is missing from our collection. When William Butterfield built the current School Chapel in 1872 he installed a Reredos mosaic behind the alter. This was re… 0 2022 06/12/2022
Tweet 06/12/2022 09:00 AM Today is Day our archive documents a large part of Rugby School's history. For the Chapel a lot of this is done through artwork and photographs. This video shows the first Chapel the Butterfield Chap… 0 2022 06/12/2022
Tweet 05/12/2022 04:15 PM #ExploreYourArchive For today we have a review of the Dean House play from the 2001 edition of The Meteor. "An Evening with Victoria Wood". 0 2022 05/12/2022
