From The Vaults

20 September 2021

DD and RA Howie – Scottish brothers from Kirkcaldy

On January 20th 1912, the first player to be capped from the Kirkcaldy rugby club in Fife took the field at Inverleith for the first of Scotland's four matches in the 1912 International championship...

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20 September 2021

DD and RA Howie – Scottish brothers from Kirkcaldy

On January 20th 1912, the first player to be capped from the Kirkcaldy rugby club in Fife took the field at Inverleith for the first of Scotland's four matches in the 1912 International championship...

13 September 2021

Royal Indian Engineering College RFC, one of London’s Lost Rugby Clubs

The following article is an extract from 'London's Lost Rugby Clubs' by Dick Tyson...

06 September 2021

#FromTheVaults - Uruguay Pennant Flag

It's been a while, but we're back with our #FromTheVaults series, taking a look into our archives to explore some of the many thousands of objects that are not on display in the World Rugby Museum galleries.

30 August 2021

Cardiff Arms Park - An Architectural and Social History

This August sees the publication of a new history of Cardiff Arms Park, telling the story of its evolution from a pre-sporting public space to the home of the current national and club grounds.

23 August 2021

A Game Of Poetry

Vane Ihe (41 years old) has been attending Otautahi Creative Spaces since 2017 and has been writing poetry since he was 18. Vane has written over 200 poems, one of which was for New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.

13 August 2021

‘The Rugby Championship of the World’

From June to September 1921, the rugby world waited expectantly as New Zealand and South Africa, two of the legendary teams in rugby history, met for the first time in a three-test series.

30 July 2021

Remembering the Aston brothers and the 1891 Lions

Randolph Littleton Aston was the elder of two brothers who occupy a significant place in 19th century rugby history...

27 July 2021

Rugby and the Olympics

A source of inspiration for the modern Olympic movement, rugby featured four times in the early 20th Century before triumphantly returning in the sevens format at Rio in 2016. Here's what happened in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 2016...

19 July 2021

Tom Richards, the Australia Campaign and the road to the King's Cup

“I don’t feel the coming danger [the forthcoming Gallipoli invasion] any more than I have felt anxious the night before an international football match.”

12 July 2021

1971 Lions march on in New Zealand

Fresh from their victory in Dunedin, the Lions moved on to Invercargill to play Southland in mid-week. Their main injury worries focused around Gareth Edwards and his ability to play in the second test a fortnight later.

05 July 2021

Sunderland Man’s British Lions Links Examined in Timely Biography

Sunderland RFC has every right to be proud of its history. Founded as Sunderland Football Club in 1873, its formation is linked strongly to that of the Rugby Football Union two years earlier.

26 June 2021

Lions Victorious in Carisbrook, 1971

On this day 50 years ago, the British & Irish Lions took to the field at Carisbrook to face the All-Blacks...