From The Vaults

18 October 2021

PLAYER PROFILE: Brian Moore

Ahead of our next Legends Tours of Twickenham Stadium with Brian Moore on Saturday 23rd October 2021, we're taking a look back at his rugby career...

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18 October 2021

PLAYER PROFILE: Brian Moore

Ahead of our next Legends Tours of Twickenham Stadium with Brian Moore on Saturday 23rd October 2021, we're taking a look back at his rugby career...

08 October 2021

Q&A with Derek Peaple, Sporting Heritage's Education Lead

The World Rugby Museum has recently launched an extended range of School of Ruck online learning resources as part of a new education partnership with Sporting Heritage, so today we’re sharing a Q&A with their Education Lead, Derek Peaple...

04 October 2021

#FromTheVaults - Photograph Album, 1891 British Isles tour of South Africa

Following this summer’s Lions’ tour of South Africa, we wanted to highlight this photograph album in our collection which records the events of the first British Isles tour to South Africa 130 years ago...

27 September 2021

PLAYER PROFILE: Francis Luscombe (1849-1926)

Francis “Frank” Luscombe was the fourth man to captain England at rugby. He gained the first of his six England caps against Scotland at the Oval on 5 February 1872...

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...

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.”

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