The Rugby Racket

RT @OurWarwickshire: "The health of the pupils is addressed by the visits of the School Nurse examining their heads for lice, by the School…

We'll finish off this week with a few items from our Museum A picture of Temple's staff A picture including three headmasters and a cartoon of four headmasters on the close. #SchoolTeachers

#SchoolTeacher all in one Born in 1805 William Sharp MD FRS (1840) was appointed by Dr Tait as an assistant Master for Natural Science in August 1849 and left Christmas 1850.

As it is week we should mention our famous Headmaster Thomas Arnold who was depicted in Tom Brown's School Days.

RT @IsleOfManPRO: @RugSch_Heritage @SchoolArchives1 Hi, thanks for following! Photographs of are not common in our archives…

RT @RugbySchool1567: Today is the birthday of Old Rugbeian William Webb Ellis. Who took the ball in his arms and ran with it creating the…

@IsleOfManPRO Fantastic do you have any of @SchoolArchives1

R B Talbot Kelly was an art master at Rugby School from 1945-1966 (he was also a pupil from 1911-1914). #SchoolTeachers

#OnThisDay in 1916 Fredrick Stephen Temple was born. He entered Rugby School in 1930 and left in 1935. He was in School House and his Headmasters were Vaughan and Lyon. Temple went on to be the the S…

#FromTheArchive Did you know that Rugby School employed one of the first female teacher in a boys public school? Marie Bethell Beauclerc was appointed as a teacher of shorthand in 1888 by Dr Percival…

#ExploreYourArchive day 3 We hold a number of plans/maps for the school including this one from 1749.

Looking forward to seeing more in December 7th December - 14th December - 21st December - 28th December -

#Home can have so many meanings #ExploreYourArchive Full letter in The Meteor December 15 1868 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @ARALearning: can be a great way to communicate our instatutions organisations histories School Archives and those who ho…

It's Launch week day 1 if you would like to communicate with the archives you can do so via our online archive rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

We've really enjoyed looking at the this week. Next week we'll be looking at's why not share your memories with us #FromTheArchive Photograph of Volunteer Corps and band pre 1902.

Looking forward to Launch Week starting tomorrow You can explore our online archive here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx twitter.com/explorearchive…

@Carthusiana Thank you

@Carthusiana I did find some earlier photos yesterday in an album complied in 1902 of different buildings and school activities. might share some of those tomorrow.

@Carthusiana Is that plate 2 in the book? I haven't spotted the original yet but do need to have a good look through all our photographs.

@townhouse_rst Thank you, next time I am over there I will take a look. This one is in an album I found in the Archive's CCF section.

Today we're sharing images of the OTC including C G Steel's House Detachment (now Stanley). #SchoolCCF

RT @EtonCollections: @RugSch_Heritage The Eton College Volunteer Corps began in 1860. Here is a photograph of the Officers of the Rifle Cor…

@EtonCollections Thank you, interesting that we were both forming corps around the same time.

#OnThisDay in 1882 Percy Wyndham Lewis was born. He came to Rugby School in 1897 and left in 1898. He was in Stallard House now Tudor. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art.

@EtonCollections when was the school's Rifle Corps started? According to a report in The Meteor in 1867 an enrolled Rifle Corp was being formed. #FromTheArchive #SchoolCCF

Rugby formed in 1860 This is one of the earliest photographs we have of the Rifle Corps in July 1903. #FromTheArchive

@sps_kayton Perhaps we should start a timeline of dates @BredonSchool @CanfordSchool @OswestrySchool and @ExeterSchoolUK do you know when your CCFs were established? #FromTheArchive

@sps_kayton We still have ours which has been going for 160 years this year

This week we are looking at the history of our with We're going to start with a letter in The Meteor June 3rd 1869 from a Private in the Rifle Corps. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @RugbySchool1567: Requiem Mass from the chapel was streamed last night with beautiful singing You can watch it here: https://t.co/p1R…

@StSwithunsArch @StSwithunsGirls You can post anytime of the week you like :-) fab images. Thanks for joining us.

#FromtheArchive Records on our include: Orders of Service, art work, objects, guides to the Chapel and Memorial Chapel, books of sermons by various Head Masters and pupils and a record book of the ch…

#ThrowbackThursdays This was the front cover of The Meteor 50 years ago in November 1970.

Monday's post included a drawing of the old chapel (seen below). The foundation stone was laid by Dr Wooll in 1818 and the first building designed by Henry Hakewill. It was enlarged between 1848 and …

RT @RugbySchool1567: Today students gathered on The Close as part of They each stood next to a small wooden cross, symbol…

#FromTheArchive #SchoolChapel We also have a Memorial Chapel dedicated to those who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. Today we remember all Rugbeians who have lost their lives in t…

Time for some "In Rugby Chapel" reprinted in The Phoenix June 1904 written by OR. The Phoenix was a paper edited by members of Rugby School. #FromTheArchive

Tomorrow is We have a number of memorials in our Chapel dedicated to those ORs who have given their lives in different wars and conflicts. We also have a number of memorial books. You can find the me…

#FromtheArchive This week it is We have had two chapels, the second one was built by Butterfield and consecrated in 1872.

RT @MassObsArchive: Just in time for. Episode one of A Taste of History with @Stellastar80 (using recipes from the MOA). Thi…

This weeks is all about. Doesn't just have to be the building why not share your memories of events, services or assemblies at school or even religious studies while at school.

#RemembranceSunday We will remember them twitter.com/RugbySchool156…

Archives of do you have any school archives you'd like to share with us? @Chambearlin @CovUniArchives @MACEarchive @MRCWarwick

@StSwithunsArch @StSwithunsGirls Excellent first post

#ArchiveZ Z is for "An Hour at the Zoo" a report given at the School's Natural History Society meeting 27th March 1886.

Really looking forward to this, thanks @KEArchive, @NThorpeBS, @OundleArchive and @sps_Kayton for your support. 2nd November - 9th November - 16th November - 23rd November - 30th November - twitter.c…

@SchoolArchives1 @StonyArchivum Just been looking through all the great contributions for today look forward to seeing more over the next few months!