The Rugby Racket

Lots of sports are played at Rugby School. This includes Rackets and Fives. This is the Fives and Rackets Courts built by William Butterfield (1861). #SportArchives #SportingHeritage #Archive30

@ReptonThePriory @sps_kayton @SchoolArchives1 Thank you for this info, really helpful and I will up date our records :-)

@sps_kayton Oh no! We believe we are the only school who still has their one. It would be good to know if anyone else still has their number @SchoolArchives1

RT @RugbySchool1567: May His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh rest in peace As a school, we were fortunate to welcome h…

The Schools Class Locomotive was introduced in 1930 each one bearing the name of a Public School. When they were removed from service Rugby received their plate. #ArchiveObject #Archive30

Getting in touch and asking us questions can also help us to identify and give context our collections such as these electrotype coins made by the British Museum. #Archive30 #ArchiveOutreach

If you have any questions about our history or think we can help you with your research please get in touch with via our remote enquiry service rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/authenticated/… #Archive30 #A…

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@sps_kayton Interestingly it wasn't in the glossary of terms from the 1940s.

@sps_kayton I know, I might get the slang book out later to see if it is there.

#ArchiveFoodandDrink #Archive30 At one time Sunday Tea was known as Piffer.

@doctoruprichard These are our two smallest Rugby balls about 14cm in length.

@doctoruprichard I'll go and measure them when I'm in the store room and let you know.

#unusualItem in our collection a locket of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's hair cut when he was 16 years old. #Archive30 I know other archives have hair in their collections but has anyone else got it…

#ArchivesFromHome This often involves a lot of reading and research via our online archive. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Authenticated/… #Archive30

RT @RugbySchool1567: Happy Easter everyone #wholepersonwholepoint

#Archive30 day 4 it's Here is the smallest cricket bat and ball in our collection.

For we have some of Sanitorium Equipment, record books and a photograph from the Old San. #Archive30

#WhereYouStarted We are currently trying to build an administrative history of our archives but it probably started with our foundation documents and the Will of Lawrence Sheriff #Archive30

We are the Rugby School Archives and Special Collections and hold a variety of material from letters to photographs to art work to vinyl records. We look forward to sharing more over the next 30 days…

Records of The Crick run have been kept since 1837. The first record run was completed by E B Kellett in 1889, 12 1/4 miles in 1 hour 15 minutes 15 seconds. (can you see when his time was beaten?) #S…

I'm not sure if Gertrude Hayes is the first female Art Mistress but certainly the first we have a record of. Gertrude Hayes taught during 1914-1918 and we hold some of her etchings in our collection.…

This is the last week of and we are ending on One of our firsts is William Webb Ellis running with the ball in 1823.

Did you know that Lewis Carroll and Arthur Ransome attended Rugby School? #SchoolAlumni #fromthearchives

#OnThisDay in 1887 OR Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes surgeon and author was born. His brother the economist John Maynard Keynes was at Eton.

@CasparHobbs ahh I see, thank you, It's such a shame that you can't edit Tweets.

@CasparHobbs Are you asking which house he was in? If so Brooke's House is now known as School Field.

#OnThisDay in 1887 OR Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes surgeon and author was born. His brother the economist John Maynard Keynes was at Eaton.

In 1902 it cost One Sovereign to join the Old Rugbeian Society

The Old Rugbeian Society (now the Rugbeian Society) produced a number of publications including Annotated Register, Football Records of Rugby School, Rugby School Crick Teams from 1831 and Football T…

#WomensHistoryMonth As part of the work on our collections we have been looking at books written and illustrated by ORs and Masters. This one was created by Annie Barnard, we think she was the daught…

This week we want to know about your. Rugby School Alumni are known as Old Rugbeians. #FromtheArchive

RT @wrugbymuseum: As the Rugby Football Union celebrates its 150th year, we examine six influential governing bodies and their roles in the…

In July 1867 Rugby School examined pupils knowledge of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar #ShakespeareWeek

In March 1882 Matthew Bloxam gave a paper On the Civil Costume of Gentlemen in Shakespeare's Age. #ShakespeareWeek pic.twitter.com/1ERKQa2xuN

While we hold a number of Dr Thomas Arnold's records in the collection we also hold some for Mary Arnold including her handwritten account of her Husband's death in 1842. #WomensHistoryMonth

Can you answer these Mathematics Questions from the 1926 Rugby School Scholarship Paper? #SchoolMaths #FromTheArchives

In 1902 Mathematics was scheduled for 4 hours if you were in the Upper Fifth Classical Side. #SchoolMaths #FromTheArchives

This week share your memories of learning or teaching Maths at school. #SchoolMaths #FromtheArchive

@CharterhouseAr3 @SchoolArchives1 Same here!

Next week is Do you remember performing in a Shakespeare play at school and which one was it? #SchoolEnglish #FromTheArchives

@ArchiveTrinity Welcome to Twitter. I hope you'll join us and @SchoolArchives1 for the last couple of weeks of.

@OMearaChris1 @HistoryRugby Thank you for sharing this with us was that the one mentioned in The Meteor in May 1968?

A number of Old Rugbeians are well known authors including Thomas Hughes who wrote Tom Brown's School Days. #HBAHBooks #SchoolEnglish #FromTheArchives

In 1899 also included: Modern History Geography Composition and Literature #FromTheArchives

Today is and our theme this week is In debating society meeting in 1888 Mr. Sharp proposed “That the English women novelists of this century have done more for literature than the male.” bit.ly/3rdGY…

We had better get our thinking caps on then. twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Rugby School Debating Society 1869 On Tuesday, 11th May, Mr. Shirley moved :- “That the teaching of Latin and Greek in the present system of School edu­cation is preposterously prominent.” #FromtheAr…