The Rugby Racket

RT @RugbyGallery: Head over to our website for an online preview of our new exhibition False Memory: rugby.gov.uk/ragm/homepage/… #FalseMemor…

RT @EtonCollections: New collections blog post from the literary archives, @EtonCollLibrary ! A gathering of friends: the Festschrift and M…

#ExploreYourArchive We have some collections online including The Meteor the school magazine This is an invaluable resource of information. while looking for something else I found that this is 160th…

#ConservationNightmare for this week Sellotape attached to and falling off a collection of posters for performances of different theatre companies who've performed @Macready_Rugby posters were also r…

@JamieGrayPhoto @mdeaves It does doesn't it. Hoping to find more details as we make our way through assessing the collections

RT @ARAUK_IE: The issue of diversity in the record-keeping profession continues to be a key focus of the ARA’s activity. Please review our…

We are carrying on with and this week's letter is F. So we have found this recipe for Rugby Bread. Let us know if you've tried it or have a go at baking it. F for food.

@AshmoleanMuseum What a great image. This photograph of Sir John Herschel in our collection was also taken in 1867 by Julia Margaret Cameron.

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E is for Exercises We have quite a few Head Master's Albums to choose from but this is the only illustrated one I've seen so far. They include Latin, Greek and English exercises. Mathematics appears …

D is also for Desk This is Thomas Arnold's desk Headmaster from 1828 to 1842. #ArchiveZ

RT @TheRugbyTown: Quiz time! Rugby School's Queen's Gates were opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1967 to commemorate what? http…

D is for You can find our digital here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx #ArchiveZ #ExploreYourArchive

RT @britishlibrary: We know many of you may be missing some of your favourite pastimes at the moment, so let the @soundarchive take you to…

Here is our (well an example). The medal, which has the head of Queen Victoria on one side, and which was given each year for the History essay prize, is a Wyon Medal, which was used as the template …

C is also for the Centenary of Rugby Football and Centenary Match which took place on 1st November 1923.

#ArchiveZ week 3 it's C for Clara in Blunderland I wonder what novel it's meant to be a parody of? #AliceInWonderland

@OundleArchive Yes! We could do popular school trends through the years, with a different theme each week. Perhaps something to post on SARA next week to get ideas.

RT @ARAUK_IE: This month @archivehour will be hosted by the Archives for Learning and Education Section @ARALearning. Join in…

@OundleArchive Perhaps we need to come up with our own School Archives version

Thought we might join in with some of our

#ExploreYourArchive we certainly have. Here are some birds from our Natural History Collection perfect for todays topic. (can you spot the other animal hanging out with these birds?)

Following Tuesday's Tweet on Butterfield's Chapel we are trying to locate the mosaics which are no longer with the School. This includes the four Evangelists and prophets, saints and fathers of the C…

RT @ARALearning: Does anyone have any educational resources about animals? twitter.com/explorearchive…

B is for Butterfield, his Chapel was concecrated in 1872. When the Chapel was renovated in 1960 the mosaics were removed (we don't know why) The School retained the cross from the centre of the rered…

#WhyArchives We help the school to remember its past, support the work it does today and look to the future. #Archive30

#Archive30 day 26 Just look at these! need I say more?

#Archive30 Old Office v New Office

Prince Alemayehu or Alamayou of Ethiopia attended Rugby School from1875 (he moved there as Thomas Jex-Blake became Headmaster). This is his Memorial Stone #Archive30

#Archive30 day 19 We couldn't get into this safe to find out what was inside so we had to call a locksmith in.

At one time parts of the collections we hold today were kept in the Art Museum. #Archive30

Today is day 15 of so here is a few Rugby Football images. #Sport

#Archive30 For this we thought we'd share this lovely image of the Chapel and the close.

@CasparHobbs @MACEarchive Not at the moment but you can contact our enquiry service for more information rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk

#Archive 30 Day 13 Here are some images of Rugby School's for you to enjoy. If you like to search documents check out our digital archive online rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk or get in touch with our enq…

RT @RugbyGallery: Today is the anniversary of the first ground test of the jet engine at the British Thomson-Houston Works Rugby1937. Whitt…

Some of our collections were originally owned and collected by Matthew Bloxam he is remembered as an antiquarian on Rugby and the surrounding area. #Archive30

We have lots of objects in our collection. Here is one of our OR Society Tin Trunks. #Archive30

#Archive30 day 10 Something to keep your in a tuck box

RT @RugbySchool1567: You can listen to Dan McLean discussing his book Rugbeians in the Great War on the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast A…

Not really but a rumour These were removed from Upper Bench sometime between 1875 and 1886. Boys were permitted to carve their names here before they left school. It is rumoured that some boys paid t…

In 1967 Rugby School celebrated the opening of the Queen's Gates by Queen Elizabeth II. The event was filmed by J B Tyson a School Master and adventurer. We recently had this digitised by @MACEarchiv…

Its day 7 of and time for. For us it has to be something relating to William Webb Ellis who picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the style of play.

RT @OundleArchive: The inscribed plate of 1593 (one of the oldest relics in the School) brought back to life by @HConservation #Conservatio…

RT @ArchiveHashtag: Message from @ARAScot - unfortunately, retweeting all your fabulous posts has caused Twitter to block our ac…

RT @CharterhouseAr3: Day 7 Over the last 400 years many pupils and members of staff have walked through our doo…

RT @RgsArchives: Day 7 is. We have had quite a few famous ONs over the years (our houses are named after 4 of the…

RT @BalliolOxford: Here’s Balliol Library’s for day 2: the Rugby School 5th form notebook of the poet Matthew Arn…