The Rugby Racket

It's International Archives Day! To celebrate we will be Tweeting throughout the day with starting with and two elliptical coins from the collection.

#OnThisDay in 1882 Alec Ogilvie was born, Michell 1896-1900, Invented and patented the world’s first airspeed indicator, and flew gliders with the Wright Brothers in 1908.

The Green Pavilion c1860

How could fish and chips be considered sacrilegious? #nationalfishandchipday (from The Meteor, October 1943, "RUGBY CLUBS' CAMP, OXFORD, 1943")

Todays image is of School House and the rifle corps in 1897.

The Temple Reading Room, images from the 1902 album.

#DidYouKnow that the first Rugby School Newspaper was published in 1710. Reprinted in part in The Sybil October 30 1894. It was called The Jawbon or Spectator Rugbaensis

#OnThisDay in 1882 Sir William Spens, CBE was born. He was a Scottish educationalist, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Attended Rugby School 1896-1901 and was in School House…

If you want to know about daily life at the school from 1867 then why not visit our online archive and search The Meteor our rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/default.aspx

Ooo we will have to get our thinking caps on twitter.com/ARAScot/status…

Drawing of Rugby School post 1827 also showing some modes of. #LocalHistoryMonth

@baylissrally I'm not sure, I will check