The Rugby Racket

RT @RugbyGallery: Head over to our website for an online preview of our new exhibition False Memory: rugby.gov.uk/ragm/homepage/… #FalseMemor…

RT @EtonCollections: New collections blog post from the literary archives, @EtonCollLibrary ! A gathering of friends: the Festschrift and M…

#ExploreYourArchive We have some collections online including The Meteor the school magazine This is an invaluable resource of information. while looking for something else I found that this is 160th…

#ConservationNightmare for this week Sellotape attached to and falling off a collection of posters for performances of different theatre companies who've performed @Macready_Rugby posters were also r…

@JamieGrayPhoto @mdeaves It does doesn't it. Hoping to find more details as we make our way through assessing the collections

RT @ARAUK_IE: The issue of diversity in the record-keeping profession continues to be a key focus of the ARA’s activity. Please review our…

We are carrying on with and this week's letter is F. So we have found this recipe for Rugby Bread. Let us know if you've tried it or have a go at baking it. F for food.

@AshmoleanMuseum What a great image. This photograph of Sir John Herschel in our collection was also taken in 1867 by Julia Margaret Cameron.

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E is for Exercises We have quite a few Head Master's Albums to choose from but this is the only illustrated one I've seen so far. They include Latin, Greek and English exercises. Mathematics appears …

D is also for Desk This is Thomas Arnold's desk Headmaster from 1828 to 1842. #ArchiveZ

RT @TheRugbyTown: Quiz time! Rugby School's Queen's Gates were opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1967 to commemorate what? http…

D is for You can find our digital here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx #ArchiveZ #ExploreYourArchive

RT @britishlibrary: We know many of you may be missing some of your favourite pastimes at the moment, so let the @soundarchive take you to…

Here is our (well an example). The medal, which has the head of Queen Victoria on one side, and which was given each year for the History essay prize, is a Wyon Medal, which was used as the template …

C is also for the Centenary of Rugby Football and Centenary Match which took place on 1st November 1923.

#ArchiveZ week 3 it's C for Clara in Blunderland I wonder what novel it's meant to be a parody of? #AliceInWonderland

@OundleArchive Yes! We could do popular school trends through the years, with a different theme each week. Perhaps something to post on SARA next week to get ideas.

RT @ARAUK_IE: This month @archivehour will be hosted by the Archives for Learning and Education Section @ARALearning. Join in…

@OundleArchive Perhaps we need to come up with our own School Archives version

Thought we might join in with some of our

#ExploreYourArchive we certainly have. Here are some birds from our Natural History Collection perfect for todays topic. (can you spot the other animal hanging out with these birds?)

Following Tuesday's Tweet on Butterfield's Chapel we are trying to locate the mosaics which are no longer with the School. This includes the four Evangelists and prophets, saints and fathers of the C…

RT @ARALearning: Does anyone have any educational resources about animals? twitter.com/explorearchive…