The Rugby Racket

RT @OurWarwickshire: "The health of the pupils is addressed by the visits of the School Nurse examining their heads for lice, by the School…

We'll finish off this week with a few items from our Museum A picture of Temple's staff A picture including three headmasters and a cartoon of four headmasters on the close. #SchoolTeachers

#SchoolTeacher all in one Born in 1805 William Sharp MD FRS (1840) was appointed by Dr Tait as an assistant Master for Natural Science in August 1849 and left Christmas 1850.

As it is week we should mention our famous Headmaster Thomas Arnold who was depicted in Tom Brown's School Days.

RT @IsleOfManPRO: @RugSch_Heritage @SchoolArchives1 Hi, thanks for following! Photographs of are not common in our archives…

RT @RugbySchool1567: Today is the birthday of Old Rugbeian William Webb Ellis. Who took the ball in his arms and ran with it creating the…

@IsleOfManPRO Fantastic do you have any of @SchoolArchives1

R B Talbot Kelly was an art master at Rugby School from 1945-1966 (he was also a pupil from 1911-1914). #SchoolTeachers

#OnThisDay in 1916 Fredrick Stephen Temple was born. He entered Rugby School in 1930 and left in 1935. He was in School House and his Headmasters were Vaughan and Lyon. Temple went on to be the the S…

#FromTheArchive Did you know that Rugby School employed one of the first female teacher in a boys public school? Marie Bethell Beauclerc was appointed as a teacher of shorthand in 1888 by Dr Percival…

#ExploreYourArchive day 3 We hold a number of plans/maps for the school including this one from 1749.

Looking forward to seeing more in December 7th December - 14th December - 21st December - 28th December -

#Home can have so many meanings #ExploreYourArchive Full letter in The Meteor December 15 1868 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @ARALearning: can be a great way to communicate our instatutions organisations histories School Archives and those who ho…

It's Launch week day 1 if you would like to communicate with the archives you can do so via our online archive rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

We've really enjoyed looking at the this week. Next week we'll be looking at's why not share your memories with us #FromTheArchive Photograph of Volunteer Corps and band pre 1902.

Looking forward to Launch Week starting tomorrow You can explore our online archive here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx twitter.com/explorearchive…

@Carthusiana Thank you

@Carthusiana I did find some earlier photos yesterday in an album complied in 1902 of different buildings and school activities. might share some of those tomorrow.

@Carthusiana Is that plate 2 in the book? I haven't spotted the original yet but do need to have a good look through all our photographs.

@townhouse_rst Thank you, next time I am over there I will take a look. This one is in an album I found in the Archive's CCF section.

Today we're sharing images of the OTC including C G Steel's House Detachment (now Stanley). #SchoolCCF

RT @EtonCollections: @RugSch_Heritage The Eton College Volunteer Corps began in 1860. Here is a photograph of the Officers of the Rifle Cor…

@EtonCollections Thank you, interesting that we were both forming corps around the same time.