The Rugby Racket

Great Interpretation of our theme for. Look out for in February. twitter.com/adnansamiaddic…

Between now and 31st March we will be bringing you a different type of school archives with Why not join us sharing your school heritage or memories This week is

#OnThisDay in 1923 Rugby School celebrated 100 years of Football. The Centenary Match was played on the close England-Wales V Scotland-Ireland.

Looking forward to starting next week. Who else is joining in? twitter.com/OundleArchive/…

RT @RugbyGallery: Fancy creating a Halloween drawing? 🎃 Check out this draw along with local illustrator Jess 🕷 twitter.com/jessiillustrat…

#OTD In 1950 the Debating Society held a Staff Debate on the motion - "that it is better to have something you don't want than not to have something you do". Some very interesting arguments which you…

#ArchiveMystery I often wonder what has happened to the photographs which are missing from the 1902 photograph album. On this page I can clearly see there are two missing one had a description and on…

Y is for Yours truly which is how one of the first published correspondence in The Meteor signed off in 1867. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx #ArchiveZ

RT @CHilton_BB: I talked about this and why it might happen in the Red House podcast earlier this year (brittenpears.org/explore/benjam…, season 1 e…

#OTD in 1940 A Rackets Match took place Rugby School V Radley. #SportHistory

This is 'Old Sam' a porter at Rugby School who was responsible for locking the Quad and Close Gates. He lived on Sam's Farm which is where the new cricket pavilion stands according to the caption. Ph…

RT @btsportrugby: "He was a very creative, very intelligent footballer. He was able to control the pitch." Jimmy Peters was the first bla…

X is also for Rugby XV vs @UppinghamSchool XV 1924 #ArchiveZ

RT @explorearchives: It’s less than a month until our Launch Week begins! Your archive can get involved on social media…

Our project isn't quite at the stage where we are ready to start our programme but we do accession new material arriving into the collection including this programme and notes for The Beggars Opera p…

@VadeMcum2 @RugbySchool1567 Thank you for this, isn't it interesting how the ages of the pupils entering and leaving varied in nineteenth century.

#OTD in 1822 the author of Tom Brown's School Days, Thomas Hughes was born. He entered the School in February 1834 age 11. He boarded in School House and his Head Master was Thomas Arnold. Not sure w…

X is for another publication from the Members of Rugby school X.Y.Z a rival to T.V.W and The Meteor first published in 1878. #ArchiveZ

#OTD in 1920 the Debating Society discussed a motion condemning the cinema. The full report on this debate can be found in The Meteor November 1920. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?…

Thank you @OxonMuseum! We have many ORs who went to Oxford but I thought we would share this print we need to investigate the provenance of

RT @explorearchives: W is for WEBSITE! Interested in learning more about archives? Want some resources to help you teach others about arch…

W is also for William Webb Ellis He entered the school after midsummer 1816 when Dr John Wooll DD was Head Master. #ArchiveZ

W is for Whitelaw Cap #ArchiveZ

The Bloxamian A Weekly Magazine October 14th to December 16th 1911 devoted to the interests of Bloxam House. Includes an interesting detective story "The Stolen Picture" featuring the great detective…

#TBThursday Find out about Sunday Concerts in October 1930 in The Meteor. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/Filename.ashx?…

Got a burning question about our collections, our projects or the history of Rugby School then why not get in touch by us today on day #askanarchivistday

RT @RugbySchool1567: The latest version of Page Polyglotte, our Modern Languages magazine, is live now. Read it here: https://t.co/XYDDevsa…

We'll let the TVW Magazine from 1877 tell you what V stands for #ArchiveZ

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#OTD in 1873 "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket Sir Pelham Francis Warner AKA Plum Warner was born. He was a student here 1887-1892 and was in Whitelaw House. On the XI team from 1889-1892. #Cric…

Prince Alamayu of Abyssinia was a pupil at Rugby School from 1874 to 1877. He was in Elsee's House now Kilbracken (then on Hillmorton Road). He died in 1879 and was buried at St George's Chapel, Wind…

@smcarchives My very satisfying disposal pile (please note I don't mean destruction)

It wouldn't be National Sporting Heritage Day without mentioning a certain event in 1823. #NSHD2020

Happy National Sporting Heritage Day! Here are some pictures from the Sports section of our Museum. #SportingHeritage

@MGS_Archives @MGSMagic @MGS_PEandSport Great image, got to love a good action shot. Here's one from our 1902 album.

@smcarchives I know when I go to the store this afternoon I'll share a picture of my duplicate piles :-)

It's the last day of September so it's our last post before changes to. This week I have been sorting through our vast collection of School Magazines creating complete sets and weeding out duplicates…

Interesting? typo or spoof?

@BBCArchive do you have any footage of an episode of from 2008/2009 featuring Rugby School playing Rugby Football to show the development of the game over 150 years?

U is for Upper Bench #ArchiveZ

We've got an for you to help us with especially if you are an OR. Does anyone remember this model ship which was in the TRR. We would like to know how it was acquired and if it has a name. #BehindThe…

House News for September 1870. The Meteor 1870 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

T is also for Timetable #ArchiveZ

RT @TGAArchive: We have some exciting news! History & tradition are vitally important to the @GlasgowAcademy community & over the last year…

RT @RoyalHistSoc: On the RHS blog: Beatriz Pichel, Katherine Rawlings and Jennifer Wallis consider some of the risks of making historical i…

T is for Tosh, Temple Observatory, Temple Reading Room and Temple Speech Room. #ArchiveZ

Get ready for Day on 7th or 8th October depending on where you are in the world. Got a question about our Archives or what we are up to Tweet us on Day. twitter.com/ArchiveHashtag…

Today we have Augmented Reality but in the past we had the immersive experience of the stereoscope which is this weeks find of the week and another S. I found this one in one of our store rooms with …