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#OnThisDay in 1887 OR Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes surgeon and author was born. His brother the economist John Maynard Keynes was at Eton.

@CasparHobbs ahh I see, thank you, It's such a shame that you can't edit Tweets.

@CasparHobbs Are you asking which house he was in? If so Brooke's House is now known as School Field.

#OnThisDay in 1887 OR Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes surgeon and author was born. His brother the economist John Maynard Keynes was at Eaton.

In 1902 it cost One Sovereign to join the Old Rugbeian Society

The Old Rugbeian Society (now the Rugbeian Society) produced a number of publications including Annotated Register, Football Records of Rugby School, Rugby School Crick Teams from 1831 and Football T…

#WomensHistoryMonth As part of the work on our collections we have been looking at books written and illustrated by ORs and Masters. This one was created by Annie Barnard, we think she was the daught…

This week we want to know about your. Rugby School Alumni are known as Old Rugbeians. #FromtheArchive

RT @wrugbymuseum: As the Rugby Football Union celebrates its 150th year, we examine six influential governing bodies and their roles in the…

In July 1867 Rugby School examined pupils knowledge of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar #ShakespeareWeek

In March 1882 Matthew Bloxam gave a paper On the Civil Costume of Gentlemen in Shakespeare's Age. #ShakespeareWeek pic.twitter.com/1ERKQa2xuN

While we hold a number of Dr Thomas Arnold's records in the collection we also hold some for Mary Arnold including her handwritten account of her Husband's death in 1842. #WomensHistoryMonth

Can you answer these Mathematics Questions from the 1926 Rugby School Scholarship Paper? #SchoolMaths #FromTheArchives

In 1902 Mathematics was scheduled for 4 hours if you were in the Upper Fifth Classical Side. #SchoolMaths #FromTheArchives

This week share your memories of learning or teaching Maths at school. #SchoolMaths #FromtheArchive

@CharterhouseAr3 @SchoolArchives1 Same here!

Next week is Do you remember performing in a Shakespeare play at school and which one was it? #SchoolEnglish #FromTheArchives

@ArchiveTrinity Welcome to Twitter. I hope you'll join us and @SchoolArchives1 for the last couple of weeks of.

@OMearaChris1 @HistoryRugby Thank you for sharing this with us was that the one mentioned in The Meteor in May 1968?

A number of Old Rugbeians are well known authors including Thomas Hughes who wrote Tom Brown's School Days. #HBAHBooks #SchoolEnglish #FromTheArchives

In 1899 also included: Modern History Geography Composition and Literature #FromTheArchives

Today is and our theme this week is In debating society meeting in 1888 Mr. Sharp proposed “That the English women novelists of this century have done more for literature than the male.” bit.ly/3rdGY…

We had better get our thinking caps on then. twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Rugby School Debating Society 1869 On Tuesday, 11th May, Mr. Shirley moved :- “That the teaching of Latin and Greek in the present system of School edu­cation is preposterously prominent.” #FromtheAr…