The Rugby Racket

Looking for what happened at Rugby School in the 1940s? Try searching past copies of The Meteor online rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx In August 1940 The Rugby Club's camped at.

I am of course referring to the Rugby School Natural History Society which covered many subjects not just animals, insects and fossils but railways and brass rubbings to.

N is for Natural History Society. It's second meeting was reported in The Meteor in 1867. (12th April Issue). #ArchiveZ rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

RT @HistEdSocUK: Take a look a the latest blog post on our website! Joanna Holmes writes about mid-Victorian teachers https://t.co/…

It's so we thought we would share two of the lions in our collection: a statue and a door knocker.

N is for Natural History Collection which includes this Muskrat. #ArchiveZ

#OTD in 1930 the Old Rugbeians played against the Old Haileyburians. #sportshistory

Now that most of the listing is done I have the to have a more detailed look at handwriting in the collection. from a Poetry Prize Book and Manuscript written in the 1830s. #ExploreYourArchive

RT @UKNatArcEdu: The first two episodes of Time Travel Tots are out now! Join Emily & Dani the Storyteller as they delve into the records t…

@leics1975 Thank you, this is fabulous info I shall add this to the notes.

@leics1975 Also just had a look at a list of Michell house Archives I found a few weeks ago (from 1977). Which has documents from 1862 but these must have come from the previous house perhaps with Gr…

@leics1975 Thanks Tim. I have to say that I was slightly confused by a fact sheet which had masters for this house before 1883 perhaps because the boys from the previous house moved to the new house …

M is for Michell House which has existed since 1841 and moved to it's current location in 1883. Here are a few of the items from Michell House archives. #ArchiveZ

@DCArchives @DulwichCollege Very interesting, last week I also came across our collection of books by and about Sir Pelham Warner on the Old Rugbeian Shelves.

@OundleArchive We feel your pain, got this to look forward to.

#OTD in 1950 Whitelaw House held a reunion dinner for Old Rugbeians.

In July 1970 Rugby School's CCF went on summer camp with The 17TH/21ST Lancers to Munster. You can find more stories like this in copies of The Meteor 1867-2018 here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/authent…

L is for Languages These exercise books which I listed in a previous week contain and. #Classics #ArchiveZ

RT @Carthusiana: Copies of my first book ‘Rugbeians in the Great War’ are still available online here: rugbeiansinthegreatwar.com/shop. Have a look…

#OnThisDay in 1960 Rugby School's Orchestra performed Mozart's Overture.

@ARAArchMus Always looking for a chance to link Doctor Who or Sherlock Holmes to Archives. Thank you, I spend most of my time in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries but sometimes go back further. …

Today's find on these shelves, part of the Rugby School Natural History Society Collection.

Working in archives is like having your own. Today I'll be traveling through the history of our society's and sport's teams. #ExploreYourArchive

Rupert Brooke was also a student at Rugby School. twitter.com/ARALearning/st…