The Rugby Racket

@Frederic @jpstafford @wrugbymuseum @AvaHs_Sport @MuseeduSport @hugh_barrow @_philmcgowan @collinstony @bainescards1 @LydzFursey I think this one is a print, will have to look at the one in the Museu…

@Suzanne90658914 Thank you that looks the closest, perhaps it's a Rugbeian's cap who played for Hampshire.

In December 1880 Matthew Bloxam published an article in The Meteor telling the story of William Webb Ellis running with the ball. #SchoolOrigins rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

@Frederic @jpstafford @wrugbymuseum @AvaHs_Sport @MuseeduSport @hugh_barrow @_philmcgowan @collinstony @bainescards1 @LydzFursey The earliest depiction of Rugby Football we is of a match in 1839 all …

Letters to the editor were a feature of The Meteor up to around 1967. We recently found an original from 1938 talking about William Wyamar Vaughan (Head Master 1921-1931) #EYALetters #ExploreYourArch…

#Schoolorigins It is believed that "The Model Young Master" in Tom Brown's School Days is based on George Edward Lynch Cotton. He went on to be elected Bishop of Calcutta in 1858 and founded a boys p…

Origins of the current site on which the School stands: 1750 a move was made from the middle of the town to a manor house on the present site of School House. The images show the School on its presen…

Rugby School was founded as a Free Grammar School for the boys of Rugby and Brownsover in 1567, in accordance with instructions attached to the Will of Lawrence Sheriff. #Schoolorigins

School Steeple Chase 1882 from a student's scrapbook of school photos from the 1880s. #Sporthistory #SportingHeritage

#EYAletters This is a collection of letters sent home by three brothers in 1813 and 1814: Colin Campbell, John Heyrick and Thomas Macaulay (Gascoigne House now extinct) #ExploreYourArchive

@TomosEvans01 @HistoryRugby He entered the School in 1747 when Dr Knail was Headmaster

@RadleyArchives ... we recently found Miss Kempster's personal notebook which needs further investigation to establish who she and her role at the school

@RadleyArchives This is the case for us as well, Miss Dukes is the first we can track through the registers and The Meteor. There are many other women before here who don't appear in the official rec…

@RadleyArchives Miss Dukes is possibly our second/third female teacher as we had Gertrude Hayes teaching art around the same time and the John Percival employed the first female teacher in an English…

#SchoolMusic Alice Dukes was the first female music teacher appointed at Rugby School in 1919 and taught until 1949. She died in 1968.

Over 80 years ago in February 1929, plans for a new house at Rugby School were agreed to. Sheriff was the third house to be permanently named, opening with 20 boys in September 1930.

First up for organs in New Big School and the Temple Speech Room

The West end of the first Chapel, c1843

RT @hugh_barrow: Quite an occasion @RugSch_Heritage

@hugh_barrow That's very interesting, that some of the players stayed in the Gymnasium

These images are of a very early wireless reception outside of London c1921. They show E R Thomas head of Science and students experimenting with the wireless at Rugby School. Found in one of the sto…

1975 was the first year that girls were involved in the Middle School play at Rugby in an "experimental production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice." #SchoolDiversity rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk…

Earlier this month @HistoryRugby hosted their first @ahrcpress doctoral intern @TomosEvans01 on the project 'Schools of Empire: Class and Colonialism, c. 1750–1945', and already there have been some …

RT @TomosEvans01: “Most shameful of men!” A very angry Greek letter from Rugby head Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) to a friend who has insulted…

@CasparHobbs The modern one is a slightly brighter shade

Yesterday we were sorting through a Rugby School XI wooden chest which held a duck egg blue cricket cap and a duck egg blue shirt. #SchoolBlues #sportshistory #Cricket

#OTD in 1927 Geoffrey Atkins, World Rackets Champion was born. He was in Town from 1940-1945.

One of our volunteers is working on repackaging and auditing our Bloxam Collection. This has been identified as a bronze snaffle bit but we aren't sure which part of the bit it might be. Any ideas? #…

#OTD in 1935 Jon Howie Stallworthy, FBA, FRSL was born. He was in Stanley from 1948-1953. In 1953 he came 4th in the Crick Run with a time of 69.43 rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

At Rugby School we use the colour blue in many things including house colours #SchoolBlues @SchoolArchives1

@Kate_Pulford @PrinceAlfredSA @thingsbehindsun We've got a Scotland Cap in our Museum

Another cap we are not quite sure of, possibly Whitelaw (without the star) or Town in a different shade of purple and with piping?

RT @HistoryRugby: Thrilled to host our first @ahrcpress doctoral intern @TomosEvans01 on the project 'Schools of Empire: Class and Colonial…

In November 1949 Staff at Rugby School performed The Importance of Being Earnest #SchoolDrama

@Kate_Pulford @PrinceAlfredSA Do you have a picture?

In October 1904 students at Rugby School went to see "As You Like It" and reviewed it in The Meteor #SchoolDrama rugbyschoolarchives.co.uk/PDFViewer/web/…

@Carthusiana Tudor's was blue but I don't think they embroidered their symbol on the cap.

@MGS_Archives Interesting, I will have to do some research to see if that was the case here. It is very similar to our 'Follow up' Caps for Rugby Football but I don't think this symbol was used on th…

Has anyone seen a cap like this before? #sportshistory

The Kick Off by Chambers

@Carthusiana Not sure, I think this might be School House as the Head Master was also the House Master in 1922

Photograph of the Head Master's Garden in 1922.

Happy New Year from the Rugby School Archives & Special Collections Team #SchoolHolidays The Meteor, February 1884

The Town House 1890 with Head Master John Percival. Until the appointment of H.P. Sparling in 1930, the Head Master was House Master of the Town. John Percival was the first to appoint an official tu…

#OTD in 1894 Frank Laurence Lucas, usually cited as F. L. Lucas, was born he was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's Coll…

The Latin Psalm The Meteor, April, 1921 #SchoolHolidays

In 1895 students carried out community work during the Christmas holidays supporting Rugby School's Home Mission. #SchoolHolidays

The Old Rugbeian Society was founded 132 years ago twitter.com/RugSch_Heritag…