The Rugby Racket

Othe include reading 📚. If I was on holiday I'd probably want to read this book from our collection.

#DidYouKnow that in August 1920 Winston Churchill stayed at School Field while in Rugby to play Polo.

One of my favourite is writing postcards

In June 1953 the 1924 Champion H M Abrahams spoke about the 1952 games. He also explained how a photo finish camera works and how the results for the 100 meter run were obtained. #HBAHSummer #sportsh…

@robertprior Prior to this when Temple and Jex-Blake were Head Masters the fashion was sideburns and then Percival's predecessor James had a very long beard. Perhaps this will be our theme for Novemb…

#DidYouKnow that in1908 two Rugbeians competed in the #HBAHSummer #sportshistory #sportingheritage

@DohertyTA @explorearchives Excellent, this might be the case though this copy is in one of the boarding Houses Albums and I have not seen another copy yet so would be interesting to compare if the o…

#ArchiveMystery Has anyone heard of photographs being edited in the 1890s? The image below is of Rugby School master but one person on the back row looks like they have been cut out and glued on. The…

@LGTilley Town House is a day house and the Town Room was built so the boys in that house would have somewhere to meet which was there own building rather than using other buildings belonging to the …

Town is one of Rugby School's oldest houses but wasn't officially recognised as a 'House' until 1888. Town boys gained their first premises in 1902, when the first 'Town Room' was built.

#ArchiveHoliday Find out about Holiday farming and potato lifting in the summer of 1917 in The Meteor Feb 1918. rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

#DidYouKnow The Baron Pierre De Coubertin, the founder of the modern Games, visited Rugby School on more than one occasion. He was inspired by Tom Brown’s Schooldays and Thomas Arnold to create the m…