The Rugby Racket

#SomethingNew for day 6 Here is one of our recent accessions Framed watercolour by Roy Foster of the unveiling of the William Webb Ellis statue in Rugby

RT @CovUniArchives: day 5: @CovUniLibrary staff helping to re-sleeve marketing & estates photos into proper pac…

@RgsArchives Thank you, sounds fabulous 😊

@RgsArchives Where did you get the crates from? I am looking for recommendations 😊

Day 5 our recent is having the will of founder Lawrence Sheriff cleaned.

Today we are going to share our Collection of The Meteor a chronical of life at Rugby School and was first published on 7th February 1867. Copies from 1867-2018 can be found online rugbyschoolarchive…

RT @CovUniArchives: day 3: archivist Gary's path in archives e.g. work at Hereford, Unilever, @Liverpoollib, @UniKe…

RT @Archiefeducatie: 2 My is the of Hendrik Brouwer (1769-1837) Open it and step right into the fascinatin…

Good Morning, because we can't walk up our path to work today here is our Archive Relocation Project Manager's career path.

#Archive30 day 2 This photograph of Sir John Herschel taken in 1867 is one of our favourite items as it was taken by Julia Margaret Cameron a British photographer who is considered one of the most im…

RT @OundleArchive: Part of a letter written by the 1st XI cricket Captain in 1948 to a member of the team congratulating him on gaining his…

Hurray it's the first day of Our archive is an exciting mix of records, objects, textiles and art work as well as many other items and we look forward to sharing with you what we have put together wh…

Queen's Medal, which has the head of Queen Victoria on one side, and which was given each year for the History essay prize from 1848, is a Wyon Medal, which was used as the template for the Penny Bla…

Congratulations to Magdelen College School Archive @MCSOxford on achieving Archive Service Accreditation status 🥂

Apart from Town and School, all houses took the name of their House Master until 1930, when Sheriff House was built. In February 1931 Cotton and Tudor were named, with Bradley being the last, in 1945…

@ARAScot We've been getting creative with images we have access to

RT @RadleyArchives: Virtual School radleyarchive.blog/2020/03/25/vir…

RT @UkNatArchives: 🚨Calling all heritage organisations in London & the South East: Do you have stocks of PPE (unopened nitrile gloves and m…

RT @lanchester_ia: So we can continue to share the amazing archive and inspire people as they work from home, the Lanchester SketchClub wil…

The Rugby School Archives team is now in WFH mode, but there is plenty of online digital material available at rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx such as the school magazine, school pupil lists/r…

Regretting not bringing home a spare copy of the Rugby School themed Monopoly game - purely to provide some secure offsite backup storage of course

RT @arkhamlibrarian: Dear researchers of the world: now is not the time to email special collections and ask us to digitize everything for…

RT @PFdn_Archives: I have not left the cabinets open I hasten to add! 🤦‍♀️

RT @MidlandSounds: We just managed to share this gorgeous choc train cake with some of our lovely volunteers before the Uni of Leics closed…

RT @OakhamArchives: in 1743, Handel's "The Messiah" premiered in London. The oratorio was performed many times @OakhamSch. We ha…

RT @EtonCollMuseums: Our activity sheets from the Museum of Antiquities are available to download for printing out and colouring at home!…

@CasparHobbs I will devise a quiz for later in the week watch this space

RT @PFdn_Archives: When the order bought the land at Princethorpe, clay from the soil was used for the bricks. As a result a natural lake f…

RT @TheIronRoom: Essential work is being undertaken on our @LibraryofBham by book conservator @green…

@simon_archivist Definitely The Clangers, Pogles Wood, Bagpuss

RT @Glastronomer: As I’m no longer working in HE libraries I’m free to state I’m beyond horrified to see how many universities are well ahe…

Looking through a box and found a glossary of terms from 1946-50. Wonder how many of the terms are still used today?

RT @ARALearning: We have another to inspire you in the art of the subtle integration of archives with school life by Charlotte McCror…

RT @EtonCollections: Come and see Eton's virtual collection on our blog! The latest post features one of our schools workshops: A School at…

RT @guardian: DIY curators let loose on huge online collection of British art theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

RT @RecordOffice: We must thank the chaps @Bruynzeel_UK for installing our shelving at the outstore as planned and despite everything going…

Today we're looking through boxes of score books from nineteenth and twentieth centuries

RT @WSchoolArchives: An '80s IT classroom for

RT @RadleyArchives: A historic day as we begin life as a virtual school. Information here radley.org.uk/about-radley/c…

RT @melindahaunton: Archivists locking up. We know things endure. We work with them every day. Courage. twitter.com/Mcintoshheidi/…

@apcholmes Thank you for the suggestion hopefully while sorting through our collections we'll find out more about it.

RT @RugbySchool1567: Announcement regarding Parents will have received a letter already this afternoon #wholepersonwholepoin…

RT @JTullock: @ARABusinessrec My Business Records Pinterest also has this article from the Observer about the archive https://t.co/OJJb04B3…

Catching up with our massive accessions backlog - this is a 2011 donation of an 1894 School House team photo with the Wrigley Cup (for athletics) @SportsCentreRS 🏆🏃‍♂️

@LindaPattingham @JTullock We think they are the same metal

RT @ChuArchives: The Churchill Archives Centre will close to researchers for an indefinite period from 5pm on Wed 18 March because of the p…

RT @ARAconf: COVID-19: ARA has taken the decision to suspend all events until the end of *May 2020* All face-to-face activity including t…

@smcarchives Thank you