The Rugby Racket

A example of a timetable for a boy studying classics in 1902 and the "light" reading that was required. #SchoolBooks

RT @RugbySchool1567: We join the world celebrating “Reading is the most creative thing you can do with your mind equal to wr…

We have lots of books about the history of Rugby School in our Archives #WorldBookDay #SchoolBooks

This months theme is Each week we will share a piece from our collection. This is of the School in the 1840s

RT @RugbySchool1567: Next year Rugby School and the rugby world celebrate 200 years since William Webb Ellis took the ball in his arms and…

An image of the Temple Reading room in c1902 and then another from the 1990s. #SchoolBooks @SchoolArchives1 @TempleReading

@Carthusiana @univbc Thank you Dan, I have contacted @TheVarsityShop1 as well to see if they recognise it.

Another cap in our collection we don't believe is a Rugby School one. Anyone seen it before? The manufacturer is Castell & Son 13 broad Street Oxford. #ArchiveMystery

Although there is evidence that was played by students at Rugby School in Houses a whole School Chess Club doesn't appear to have been formed until 1878. Image is of The Chess Cup for the best house …

RT @TomosEvans01: 1913-18, 4 Tibetan boys were sent to ⁦@RugbySchool1567⁩ by the Dalai Lama to gain British military train…

One of our volunteers continues to work on our Bloxam Collection which contains artefacts collected by Matthew Bloxam (1813-1820 Bloxam House now extinct) One of these items is an Etruscan Bronze Bro…

RT @SchoolArchives1: Going out with a bang...what treasures do you have to share in the last few weeks of the @SchoolArchives1 twitter camp…