The Rugby Racket

@CasparHobbs The modern one is a slightly brighter shade

Yesterday we were sorting through a Rugby School XI wooden chest which held a duck egg blue cricket cap and a duck egg blue shirt. #SchoolBlues #sportshistory #Cricket

#OTD in 1927 Geoffrey Atkins, World Rackets Champion was born. He was in Town from 1940-1945.

One of our volunteers is working on repackaging and auditing our Bloxam Collection. This has been identified as a bronze snaffle bit but we aren't sure which part of the bit it might be. Any ideas? #…

#OTD in 1935 Jon Howie Stallworthy, FBA, FRSL was born. He was in Stanley from 1948-1953. In 1953 he came 4th in the Crick Run with a time of 69.43 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

At Rugby School we use the colour blue in many things including house colours #SchoolBlues @SchoolArchives1

@Kate_Pulford @PrinceAlfredSA @thingsbehindsun We've got a Scotland Cap in our Museum

Another cap we are not quite sure of, possibly Whitelaw (without the star) or Town in a different shade of purple and with piping?

RT @HistoryRugby: Thrilled to host our first @ahrcpress doctoral intern @TomosEvans01 on the project 'Schools of Empire: Class and Colonial…

In November 1949 Staff at Rugby School performed The Importance of Being Earnest #SchoolDrama

@Kate_Pulford @PrinceAlfredSA Do you have a picture?

In October 1904 students at Rugby School went to see "As You Like It" and reviewed it in The Meteor #SchoolDrama rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

@Carthusiana Tudor's was blue but I don't think they embroidered their symbol on the cap.

@MGS_Archives Interesting, I will have to do some research to see if that was the case here. It is very similar to our 'Follow up' Caps for Rugby Football but I don't think this symbol was used on th…

Has anyone seen a cap like this before? #sportshistory

The Kick Off by Chambers

@Carthusiana Not sure, I think this might be School House as the Head Master was also the House Master in 1922

Photograph of the Head Master's Garden in 1922.

Happy New Year from the Rugby School Archives & Special Collections Team #SchoolHolidays The Meteor, February 1884

The Town House 1890 with Head Master John Percival. Until the appointment of H.P. Sparling in 1930, the Head Master was House Master of the Town. John Percival was the first to appoint an official tu…

#OTD in 1894 Frank Laurence Lucas, usually cited as F. L. Lucas, was born he was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's Coll…

The Latin Psalm The Meteor, April, 1921 #SchoolHolidays

In 1895 students carried out community work during the Christmas holidays supporting Rugby School's Home Mission. #SchoolHolidays

The Old Rugbeian Society was founded 132 years ago twitter.com/RugSch_Heritag…