The Rugby Racket

In the 1860s and 70s writers of The Meteor were using the word assembly to describe the gathering of the Bigside Levee. #SchoolAssemblies

RT @LilyTekseng: British public schools & its transplants in the colonies were absolutely essential institutional nodes of fostering + sup…

RT @LilyTekseng: As much as I love the archive for the intellectually generative possibilities that it engenders, what I really enjoy is th…

RT @LilyTekseng: Chance encounters allow us a glimpse into the connectedness of different pasts. For ex, this is the packet which carried t…

RT @LilyTekseng: The 4 boys joined a longish list of political wards who spent their formative years in British public schools, to be educa…

RT @LilyTekseng: But back to the romance. Here's an unindexed(-dexable?), pretty colour negative of a "Village Boy" somewhere in India. @Ru…

RT @LilyTekseng: Kickstarted my placement with the History Department at @RugbySchool1567 on their project. The last 48 h…

RT @rugbeiancom: Today's is thanks to our fabulous team at @RugSch_Heritage. Maps of the school grounds, and specificall…

Brownsover by George Barnard #EYAArt

According to The Sybil (1890-1895 - a literary magazine containing essays and poetry) the first Rugby School Newspaper was published in June 1710 – reprinted in part in The Sybil October 30 1894. It …

The School's longest running magazine is The Meteor started in February 1867. #SchoolPublications @SchoolArchives1

Some maps showing the

Artwork showing our in the nineteenth century #EYAArt

In 1976 the first Sixth Form Girls joined the School. The first House was Crescent In 1992 Rugby School became fully Co-educational when the first 13 year old girls arrived at the School. In 1995 the…

This week is week for the @SchoolArchives1 Twitter campaign so we thought we would start this week with some more resent image of the grounds. twitter.com/RugbySchool156…

This week is week for the @SchoolArchives1 Twitter campaign so we thought we would start this week with some more resent image of the grounds. twitter.com/RugbySchool156…

@Rugby_Sch_sport #sportshistory #SportingHeritage

Next year will be the 185th anniversary of the Crick Run. The book in this image holds the results of the first recorded run and the cup is from the centenary run in 1938. #SchoolRunning

RT @TomosEvans01: I'm in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, today to research @ShrewsburySch archives. I'll mainly be working on Rugb…

Today we continue with sharing and with another of Gertrude Hayes' artworks. This is the inside of Rugby School Chapel

Miss Alice Dukes was the first female teacher to be included in the Annotated Registers. A Teacher of Music at the School from 1916 to 1946. #InternationalWomensDay Throughout we will continue to sha…

From 1914-1918 Gertrude Hayes was Art Mistress at Rugby School #InternationalWomensDay2022

Happy In 1888 Marie Bethell Beauclerc was the first woman to be appointed as a teacher in an English boys' public school, at Rugby School.

School Steeple Chase 1882 #SchoolRunning

A example of a timetable for a boy studying classics in 1902 and the "light" reading that was required. #SchoolBooks

RT @RugbySchool1567: We join the world celebrating “Reading is the most creative thing you can do with your mind equal to wr…

We have lots of books about the history of Rugby School in our Archives #WorldBookDay #SchoolBooks

This months theme is Each week we will share a piece from our collection. This is of the School in the 1840s

RT @RugbySchool1567: Next year Rugby School and the rugby world celebrate 200 years since William Webb Ellis took the ball in his arms and…

An image of the Temple Reading room in c1902 and then another from the 1990s. #SchoolBooks @SchoolArchives1 @TempleReading

@Carthusiana @univbc Thank you Dan, I have contacted @TheVarsityShop1 as well to see if they recognise it.

Another cap in our collection we don't believe is a Rugby School one. Anyone seen it before? The manufacturer is Castell & Son 13 broad Street Oxford. #ArchiveMystery

Although there is evidence that was played by students at Rugby School in Houses a whole School Chess Club doesn't appear to have been formed until 1878. Image is of The Chess Cup for the best house …

RT @TomosEvans01: 1913-18, 4 Tibetan boys were sent to ⁦@RugbySchool1567⁩ by the Dalai Lama to gain British military train…

One of our volunteers continues to work on our Bloxam Collection which contains artefacts collected by Matthew Bloxam (1813-1820 Bloxam House now extinct) One of these items is an Etruscan Bronze Bro…

RT @SchoolArchives1: Going out with a bang...what treasures do you have to share in the last few weeks of the @SchoolArchives1 twitter camp…