The Rugby Racket

#SomethingNew for day 6 Here is one of our recent accessions Framed watercolour by Roy Foster of the unveiling of the William Webb Ellis statue in Rugby

RT @CovUniArchives: day 5: @CovUniLibrary staff helping to re-sleeve marketing & estates photos into proper pac…

@RgsArchives Thank you, sounds fabulous 😊

@RgsArchives Where did you get the crates from? I am looking for recommendations 😊

Day 5 our recent is having the will of founder Lawrence Sheriff cleaned.

Today we are going to share our Collection of The Meteor a chronical of life at Rugby School and was first published on 7th February 1867. Copies from 1867-2018 can be found online rugbyschoolarchive…

RT @CovUniArchives: day 3: archivist Gary's path in archives e.g. work at Hereford, Unilever, @Liverpoollib, @UniKe…

RT @Archiefeducatie: 2 My is the of Hendrik Brouwer (1769-1837) Open it and step right into the fascinatin…

Good Morning, because we can't walk up our path to work today here is our Archive Relocation Project Manager's career path.

#Archive30 day 2 This photograph of Sir John Herschel taken in 1867 is one of our favourite items as it was taken by Julia Margaret Cameron a British photographer who is considered one of the most im…

RT @OundleArchive: Part of a letter written by the 1st XI cricket Captain in 1948 to a member of the team congratulating him on gaining his…

Hurray it's the first day of Our archive is an exciting mix of records, objects, textiles and art work as well as many other items and we look forward to sharing with you what we have put together wh…

Queen's Medal, which has the head of Queen Victoria on one side, and which was given each year for the History essay prize from 1848, is a Wyon Medal, which was used as the template for the Penny Bla…

Congratulations to Magdelen College School Archive @MCSOxford on achieving Archive Service Accreditation status 🥂

Apart from Town and School, all houses took the name of their House Master until 1930, when Sheriff House was built. In February 1931 Cotton and Tudor were named, with Bradley being the last, in 1945…

@ARAScot We've been getting creative with images we have access to

RT @RadleyArchives: Virtual School radleyarchive.blog/2020/03/25/vir…

RT @UkNatArchives: 🚨Calling all heritage organisations in London & the South East: Do you have stocks of PPE (unopened nitrile gloves and m…

RT @lanchester_ia: So we can continue to share the amazing archive and inspire people as they work from home, the Lanchester SketchClub wil…

The Rugby School Archives team is now in WFH mode, but there is plenty of online digital material available at rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx such as the school magazine, school pupil lists/r…

Regretting not bringing home a spare copy of the Rugby School themed Monopoly game - purely to provide some secure offsite backup storage of course

RT @arkhamlibrarian: Dear researchers of the world: now is not the time to email special collections and ask us to digitize everything for…

RT @PFdn_Archives: I have not left the cabinets open I hasten to add! 🤦‍♀️

RT @MidlandSounds: We just managed to share this gorgeous choc train cake with some of our lovely volunteers before the Uni of Leics closed…