The Rugby Racket

#OnThisDay in 1795 Thomas Arnold was born. He was Head Master of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841.

@PFdn_Archives @CrescentSchRug There is some footage of that Tosh from 1967 on the MACE website (about 11 minutes 15 seconds in to the film) macearchive.org/films/royal-vi…

The Tosh c1900

@Frederic They're wonderful and would look great in the stereoscope. The images that come with ours are early Twentieth century and mostly First World War.

In April 1871 the first article in The Meteor focused on Rugby Football in Scotland. #SomethingScottish rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

#IAW2021 A stereoscope

#SomethingHairy from the Natural History Collection #IAW2021

It's a Swizzle Stick #IAW2021

#IAW2021 This painting by Theodore Howard Somervell is 217.4x137cm

#SomethingNew to us a map of the school from 1956. #IAW2021

Everything in our collection is special so we will share the 1845 rules of Rugby Football written by the boys of Rugby School.

#IAW2021 An illustration of House Caps c.1850s/60s.

It's International Archives Day! To celebrate we will be Tweeting throughout the day with starting with and two elliptical coins from the collection.

#OnThisDay in 1882 Alec Ogilvie was born, Michell 1896-1900, Invented and patented the world’s first airspeed indicator, and flew gliders with the Wright Brothers in 1908.

The Green Pavilion c1860

How could fish and chips be considered sacrilegious? #nationalfishandchipday (from The Meteor, October 1943, "RUGBY CLUBS' CAMP, OXFORD, 1943")

Todays image is of School House and the rifle corps in 1897.

The Temple Reading Room, images from the 1902 album.

#DidYouKnow that the first Rugby School Newspaper was published in 1710. Reprinted in part in The Sybil October 30 1894. It was called The Jawbon or Spectator Rugbaensis

#OnThisDay in 1882 Sir William Spens, CBE was born. He was a Scottish educationalist, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Attended Rugby School 1896-1901 and was in School House…

If you want to know about daily life at the school from 1867 then why not visit our online archive and search The Meteor our rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

Ooo we will have to get our thinking caps on twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Drawing of Rugby School post 1827 also showing some modes of. #LocalHistoryMonth

@baylissrally I'm not sure, I will check