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RT @SportsCentreRS: We’re 3️⃣0️⃣ We’d like to say a huge thank you all of the team - past & present who have helped shape the centre to wh…

The Term 'The Bodger' is no longer in use

In 1896, it was customary for one of the Lower Bench to warn of the Head Master’s approach to the classroom. A phrase from a popular song would be sung; (‘Our lodger is a jolly fellow.’). One day, a …

Our Archive is full of people and their stories This is H A James Head Master 1895-1910 nicknamed "The Bodger". The James Pavilion on The Close is named after him. #ArchivePeople #Archive30

#SomeThingNew to our collection Rugby School Calendars

@sps_kayton 😂Perhaps that should be a suggestion in the catalogue entry.

#ArchiveMystery - we still don't know what this hat was for

Day 18 this is a model of part of the school #ArchiveBuilding

It's nearly time to take the humidity and temperature readings in the storerooms. #ArchiveEnvironment

Rugby School

#FavouriteItem, one of mine is the 1902 photograph album which not only includes photographs of school buildings, staff and pupils it also includes the school cockatoo. #Archive30

In 1914 four Tibetan boys joined the school. In Advent term 2020 we uncovered more of their story told in in an Old Rugbeian Newsletter from April 1988. They arrived in 1913 and were sent to Berlitz …