The Rugby Racket

@CasparHobbs The modern one is a slightly brighter shade

Yesterday we were sorting through a Rugby School XI wooden chest which held a duck egg blue cricket cap and a duck egg blue shirt. #SchoolBlues #sportshistory #Cricket

#OTD in 1927 Geoffrey Atkins, World Rackets Champion was born. He was in Town from 1940-1945.

One of our volunteers is working on repackaging and auditing our Bloxam Collection. This has been identified as a bronze snaffle bit but we aren't sure which part of the bit it might be. Any ideas? #…

#OTD in 1935 Jon Howie Stallworthy, FBA, FRSL was born. He was in Stanley from 1948-1953. In 1953 he came 4th in the Crick Run with a time of 69.43 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

At Rugby School we use the colour blue in many things including house colours #SchoolBlues @SchoolArchives1

@Kate_Pulford @PrinceAlfredSA @thingsbehindsun We've got a Scotland Cap in our Museum

Another cap we are not quite sure of, possibly Whitelaw (without the star) or Town in a different shade of purple and with piping?

RT @HistoryRugby: Thrilled to host our first @ahrcpress doctoral intern @TomosEvans01 on the project 'Schools of Empire: Class and Colonial…

In November 1949 Staff at Rugby School performed The Importance of Being Earnest #SchoolDrama

@Kate_Pulford @PrinceAlfredSA Do you have a picture?

In October 1904 students at Rugby School went to see "As You Like It" and reviewed it in The Meteor #SchoolDrama rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…