The Rugby Racket

A example of a timetable for a boy studying classics in 1902 and the "light" reading that was required. #SchoolBooks

RT @RugbySchool1567: We join the world celebrating “Reading is the most creative thing you can do with your mind equal to wr…

We have lots of books about the history of Rugby School in our Archives #WorldBookDay #SchoolBooks

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

@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

#SchoolGames Athletic Sports programme from 1889 #SportingHeritage #SportsHistory

Cross Country Run from 1902 #SchoolGames #SportingHeritage #SportsHistory

#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".

Chambers illustrations of Rugby Football.

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

@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…

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 …

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

@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…

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