The Rugby Racket

Othe include reading 📚. If I was on holiday I'd probably want to read this book from our collection.

#DidYouKnow that in August 1920 Winston Churchill stayed at School Field while in Rugby to play Polo.

One of my favourite is writing postcards

In June 1953 the 1924 Champion H M Abrahams spoke about the 1952 games. He also explained how a photo finish camera works and how the results for the 100 meter run were obtained. #HBAHSummer #sportsh…

@robertprior Prior to this when Temple and Jex-Blake were Head Masters the fashion was sideburns and then Percival's predecessor James had a very long beard. Perhaps this will be our theme for Novemb…

#DidYouKnow that in1908 two Rugbeians competed in the #HBAHSummer #sportshistory #sportingheritage

@DohertyTA @explorearchives Excellent, this might be the case though this copy is in one of the boarding Houses Albums and I have not seen another copy yet so would be interesting to compare if the o…

#ArchiveMystery Has anyone heard of photographs being edited in the 1890s? The image below is of Rugby School master but one person on the back row looks like they have been cut out and glued on. The…

@LGTilley Town House is a day house and the Town Room was built so the boys in that house would have somewhere to meet which was there own building rather than using other buildings belonging to the …

Town is one of Rugby School's oldest houses but wasn't officially recognised as a 'House' until 1888. Town boys gained their first premises in 1902, when the first 'Town Room' was built.

#ArchiveHoliday Find out about Holiday farming and potato lifting in the summer of 1917 in The Meteor Feb 1918. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

#DidYouKnow The Baron Pierre De Coubertin, the founder of the modern Games, visited Rugby School on more than one occasion. He was inspired by Tom Brown’s Schooldays and Thomas Arnold to create the m…

Looking for some holiday reading? then why not visit our digital archive. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Authenticated/…

@TheLabAndField @BL_prints Thank you, I may have to post some more especially the unlabelled ones.

This suggestion on uniform was made in Trinity term 1870 which covers the summer months and was not acted upon after the summer holiday. #ArchiveHoliday #HolidayFashion rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFV…

@TheLabAndField @BL_prints I think it does say Capercallie on the label. We have quite a few other birds with and without labels so we are working on identifying our natural history collection to mak…

#DidYouKnow that the first Rugby Summer School was held in 1986. #HBAHSummer Find out more here - rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/authenticated/…

#ExporeYourArchive What is this bird called?

#ArchiveHoliday There are a number of mentions of holidays in The Meteor but the Ark Royal certainly stands out. (1971). rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

#ExploreYourArchive Another mystery what was this used for?

We have plenty of sports represented in our collections including cricket, rugby, boxing and fencing. #HBAHSport

#OnThisDay the first eleven (Rifle Corps) to shoot at Wimbledon entered for the Ashburton in 1861 (160 years ago). The contest was re-enacted in 1960.

#ArchiveHoliday #holidaydestination in 1974 for some students was the Island of Mull. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

@SaveRedlandLibr @RugbySchool1567 We would also like to share this of the same window different time for

@RGSOldNovos Glad you're enjoying yourself, great picture of the visitors book.

#ArchiveHoliday Anyone else got a 1930s poster. Would love to see some for Holiday destinations this one is from a series of posters featuring Public School. #holidaydestination

RT @BeginsHistory: Ah, the school cross country (or 'through a local housing estate') run. Love it or hate it, it certainly tended to sear…

@CasparHobbs I think it could be there were a couple of cross country runs in that era. I will have to post the maps of those which cross over water.

Cross Country Run 1902 #HBAHSport

It's this month #ExploreYourArchive Where did this model ship come from?

@OisinTheDeer I'll have to go and check but I think the shovel was also used by the Queen in 1967.

#OnThisDay in 1909 King Edward VII opened The Temple Speech Room and planted The Kings Oak at Rugby School.

#DidYouKnow that in this month in 1914 the Boomer was dedicated at a ceremony on the Close, before being lifted into the Chapel tower, which is 159 feet tall. #ThrowbackThursday

Yesterday was the Crick Run which was first run in 1838. The first recorded time we have is from 1845 when two boys ran the race in 1 hour and 32 minutes and 0 seconds.

RT @PFdn_Archives: Can any eagle eyed Old Crescentians spot the original school buildings for @CrescentSchRug on this plan? https://t.co/or…

Do you remember the map we shared a few weeks ago of Rugby School in 1956? Well this is the School 12 years later in 1967.