The Rugby Racket

@TheRugbyTown @LudovicoAriost3 Thank you it is likely then as 19 is around that end of High Street.

#DidYouKnow that Rugby School was the first school to add science to the curriculum starting with natural sciences in 1849.

Another Rudge, this time of the Chapel (before 1872) from the Dunchurch Road. #LocalHistory

Not sure when Fives was first played at Rugby but two Fives courts were built at the School 1859 but they didn't play against other schools until 1903. #SportHistory

We have lots of caps in the collection including some with embroidery inside.

@LudovicoAriost3 Could be @TheRugbyTown do you know if that's where Gilbert's was?

High Street in Rugby looks very different today when you walk towards Lawrence Sheriff Street. Drawing by Rudge Art Master at Rugby School 1824-1841. #LocalHistory

This is a wonderful colour drawing of Upper Bench by Edward Burrow. Title - Old Sixth Form Room Rugby.

Taking on board searched for on our digital archive and found this from 1877. Found out more about in 1877 on our digital Archive rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

We'll have to get planning! twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

This is The Island by Edward Burrow

RT @WilliamsMatt75: He was also a pupil at Warminster School from 1803-1807. We are very proud to have Arnold House as well as the Thomas A…

#OnThisDay in 1795 Thomas Arnold was born. He was Head Master of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841.

@PFdn_Archives @CrescentSchRug There is some footage of that Tosh from 1967 on the MACE website (about 11 minutes 15 seconds in to the film) macearchive.org/films/royal-vi…

The Tosh c1900

@Frederic They're wonderful and would look great in the stereoscope. The images that come with ours are early Twentieth century and mostly First World War.

In April 1871 the first article in The Meteor focused on Rugby Football in Scotland. #SomethingScottish rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

#IAW2021 A stereoscope

#SomethingHairy from the Natural History Collection #IAW2021

It's a Swizzle Stick #IAW2021

#IAW2021 This painting by Theodore Howard Somervell is 217.4x137cm

#SomethingNew to us a map of the school from 1956. #IAW2021

Everything in our collection is special so we will share the 1845 rules of Rugby Football written by the boys of Rugby School.

#IAW2021 An illustration of House Caps c.1850s/60s.

It's International Archives Day! To celebrate we will be Tweeting throughout the day with starting with and two elliptical coins from the collection.

#OnThisDay in 1882 Alec Ogilvie was born, Michell 1896-1900, Invented and patented the world’s first airspeed indicator, and flew gliders with the Wright Brothers in 1908.

The Green Pavilion c1860

How could fish and chips be considered sacrilegious? #nationalfishandchipday (from The Meteor, October 1943, "RUGBY CLUBS' CAMP, OXFORD, 1943")

Todays image is of School House and the rifle corps in 1897.

The Temple Reading Room, images from the 1902 album.

#DidYouKnow that the first Rugby School Newspaper was published in 1710. Reprinted in part in The Sybil October 30 1894. It was called The Jawbon or Spectator Rugbaensis

#OnThisDay in 1882 Sir William Spens, CBE was born. He was a Scottish educationalist, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Attended Rugby School 1896-1901 and was in School House…

If you want to know about daily life at the school from 1867 then why not visit our online archive and search The Meteor our rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

Ooo we will have to get our thinking caps on twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Drawing of Rugby School post 1827 also showing some modes of. #LocalHistoryMonth

@baylissrally I'm not sure, I will check