The Rugby Racket

RT @OakhamArchives: On this day in 1877, William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, died. @OakhamSch, the Photographic Society collect…

House Runs in September 1880 #ThrowbackThursday The Meteor 1880 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @RugbySchool1567: New magazine 'The Rugby Pioneer' has arrived today The essays collected here represent a dialogue between the past an…

Just finished looking through the collection of objects in one of our stores which includes this refill for a 1920s fire extinguisher. #BehindtheScenes #ExploreYourArchive

S is for small and in sorting through our collections come across some very small cricket bats. #ArchiveZ #BehindtheScenes #ExploreYourArchive

@OundleArchive I think that is probably the best result ever!

S is for Skyros the Greek Island where OR Rupert Brooke is buried. While sorting through some of our objects and artefacts I came across these Olive Tree Roots found by Rupert Brookes grave in 1973. …

R is for and Today I have been reading and recording the temperature and relative humidity (another R) in our store rooms. #ArchiveZ #ExploreYourArchive #BehindTheScenes

@HistoryHelen123 @explorearchives 😂 got them on the brain have you? We're thinking a hat perhaps for a drama performance. An easier view of the top.

Been working on listing the collections in one of our store rooms and now trying to work out what this hat was for. #BehindTheScenes #ExploreYourArchive

Meeting in New Big School September 1890 #ThrowbackThursday The Meteor 1890 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

Not taking any Covid-19 chances at Rugby School Archives

R is for Rugbeian - a person educated at Rugby School The name has also been used in titles of school publications Rugbeian (First Published 1851) New Rugbeian (First Published 1858) Other publicatio…

R is for Football Here are some of the archives on the origins of the game and the rules written by the boys in 1845. #ArchiveZ

#ArchiveZ R is for Rugby School Been hard to choose for this letter so keep an eye out for more posts this week.

Bigside Run September 1900 #ThrowbackThursday The Meteor rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

Another Queen who visited Rugby School was Queen Adelaide in 1839. This is the cap which was worn by the boys of Rugby School in a Rugby match which took place during her visit to the School. #Archiv…

Q is for Queen's visit and quatercentenary In 1967 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Rugby School to open the Queen's gate the 400th anniversary of the school. #ArchiveZ

Looking forward to next months theme! #BehindTheScenes twitter.com/explorearchive…

A fantastic image of a cross country run in 1902. #HBAHOutdoors

Happy Can you spot the dog in this drawing of Rugby School in the 1840s?

P is for plan (a detailed map) and here is one of the Close as it was in in 1749. #ArchiveZ

O is also for Old Quad #ArchiveZ

O is for Old Big School #ArchiveZ

Looking for what happened at Rugby School in the 1940s? Try searching past copies of The Meteor online rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx In August 1940 The Rugby Club's camped at.

I am of course referring to the Rugby School Natural History Society which covered many subjects not just animals, insects and fossils but railways and brass rubbings to.

N is for Natural History Society. It's second meeting was reported in The Meteor in 1867. (12th April Issue). #ArchiveZ rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @HistEdSocUK: Take a look a the latest blog post on our website! Joanna Holmes writes about mid-Victorian teachers https://t.co/…

It's so we thought we would share two of the lions in our collection: a statue and a door knocker.

N is for Natural History Collection which includes this Muskrat. #ArchiveZ

#OTD in 1930 the Old Rugbeians played against the Old Haileyburians. #sportshistory

Now that most of the listing is done I have the to have a more detailed look at handwriting in the collection. from a Poetry Prize Book and Manuscript written in the 1830s. #ExploreYourArchive

RT @UKNatArcEdu: The first two episodes of Time Travel Tots are out now! Join Emily & Dani the Storyteller as they delve into the records t…

@leics1975 Thank you, this is fabulous info I shall add this to the notes.

@leics1975 Also just had a look at a list of Michell house Archives I found a few weeks ago (from 1977). Which has documents from 1862 but these must have come from the previous house perhaps with Gr…

@leics1975 Thanks Tim. I have to say that I was slightly confused by a fact sheet which had masters for this house before 1883 perhaps because the boys from the previous house moved to the new house …

M is for Michell House which has existed since 1841 and moved to it's current location in 1883. Here are a few of the items from Michell House archives. #ArchiveZ

@DCArchives @DulwichCollege Very interesting, last week I also came across our collection of books by and about Sir Pelham Warner on the Old Rugbeian Shelves.

@OundleArchive We feel your pain, got this to look forward to.

#OTD in 1950 Whitelaw House held a reunion dinner for Old Rugbeians.

In July 1970 Rugby School's CCF went on summer camp with The 17TH/21ST Lancers to Munster. You can find more stories like this in copies of The Meteor 1867-2018 here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/authent…

L is for Languages These exercise books which I listed in a previous week contain and. #Classics #ArchiveZ

RT @Carthusiana: Copies of my first book ‘Rugbeians in the Great War’ are still available online here: rugbeiansinthegreatwar.com/shop. Have a look…

#OnThisDay in 1960 Rugby School's Orchestra performed Mozart's Overture.

@ARAArchMus Always looking for a chance to link Doctor Who or Sherlock Holmes to Archives. Thank you, I spend most of my time in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries but sometimes go back further. …

Today's find on these shelves, part of the Rugby School Natural History Society Collection.

Working in archives is like having your own. Today I'll be traveling through the history of our society's and sport's teams. #ExploreYourArchive

Rupert Brooke was also a student at Rugby School. twitter.com/ARALearning/st…