The Rugby Racket

House Twenties (Rugby Football Teams) for Blake (Kilbracken) and School House in 1864.

@FaitbienGalthie @Frederic We didn't decide on a School team of twenty until 1867 and then fifteen in 1876.

A photograph taken before the kick off of a Rugby Football match the Sixth Form v The School in 1865.

@DCArchives Unfortunately there is no provenance with this photograph to tells us why the image was taken in this way.

A photograph of cricket being played on New Bigside in 1865. School Filed and the Rackets Courts can be seen in the background.

A photograph of T W Jex-Blake and family, 1863, when he was an Assistant Master at Rugby School and House Master of the house which is now named Kilbracken. He then went on to be Principal of Chelten…

#SomethingNew (recently rediscovered) Printing blocks for The Meteor and photographs of a sports day event. #Archive30

A mini Cassette Tape, hopefully one day we will find out what is on it. #Archive30

#ArchivePeople The first curator of the Art Museum was Thomas Mitchener Lindsay, Teacher of Drawing. He taught at the School from 1880-1907. As well as still holding some of the objects he would have…

#Archive30 here are some of our on display in our Museum representing: Cross Country, Fives, Cricket, Rugby and Rackets.

#ArchiveOutreach This year we have loaned two items to Museums for their exhibitions. @DesignMuseum have the nine caps artwork and @RugbyGallery have a piece of stained glass. #ArchiveObject #Designi…

One of our largest is the Death Cart which is on display in the Museum. When boys were injured on the football (Rugby) field it was used to carry them off to the Sanatorium. It was used up until the …

Rugby School was founded by Lawrence Sheriff's will in 1567. This contemporary copy of the will is one of the oldest documents in the collection relating to the history of the School. #WhereYouStarte…

#ArchiveInclusion is about making sure that our archive is accessible. If you have a research topic you are exploring or a query we might be able to help you with then why not get in touch with us vi…

Essential on the way to work? (When it's sunny of course). #Archive30

#Archive30 Always use pencil and know where your sharpener is.

Currently sorting and repackaging one of our smaller store rooms and came across this book. What a fantastic title

It's really hard to choose a favourite item from our collection. One of the items we really like is this book of illustrations by Anne Barnard the daughter of George Barnard who was an Art Master at …

#Archive30 Piffer anyone?

One of our volunteers has been working on repackaging and describing our Bloxam. A collection of artefacts collected/curated by Matthew Bloxam. #Archive30

#ConservationWin we are really looking forward to @TinMillPress starting work on our Foundation Documents in July this year. #Archive30

#Archive30 Many think that William Webb Ellis picked the ball up. He didn't he caught it.

We are trying to find out where this piece of stained glass came from. It is currently on display @RugbyGallery in their Every Object Tells a Story Exhibition. #ArchiveMystery #Archive30

Our can be found here rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk #Archive30

#YourWorkplace as it was in the late nineteenth century early twentieth century

@flygirlNHM They were given to the School's Natural History Society which existed from 1867 to the early 2000s. All labelled in Latin and part of a larger collection we hope to get the labels transla…

Part of our natural history collection

Our San collection contains objects like these, photographs and record books. #HealthArchives #Archive30

From the 1880s to the 1940s Rugby School had an art museum in the Upper Temple Reading Room. Some of the objects from this collection remain at the School but their stories have been lost in time. Ho…

RT @SchoolArchives1: That's a wrap folks! Thank you to everyone who took part in the latest @SchoolArchives1 twitter campaign. It's been fa…

#SomethingBig At 3ft - resin replica of Graham Ibbeson's William Webb Ellis statue in Dunchurch Road, Rugby (unveiled in 1997).

We say this every year but our mannequins are truly the scariest things in our collection. #SomethingScary #Archive30

We don't have a here at the archives as we are working on a number of projects. One of these projects is repackaging our collection of House and Following Up Caps. #Archive30

This archive tells the story of Rugby School from 1567 to the present day. #YourArchive #Archive30

#EYAART Old Big School 1816 from Ackermann.

A summary of Speech Day July 1928 #SchoolAssembies rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…