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19 June 2023

Setting Fire to the Mud

In 2003 the Rugby Football Union (RFU) utilised the stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole to front a campaign called ‘Rugby Making an Impact’...

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19 June 2023

Setting Fire to the Mud

In 2003 the Rugby Football Union (RFU) utilised the stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole to front a campaign called ‘Rugby Making an Impact’...

13 June 2023

The First Women's International

It’s been 41 years since women’s rugby took another huge leap forward with the very first international match on 13 June 1982. Holland v France would go down in history as a significant moment in the development of the sport, driven forward by passionate individuals and contested by committed players...

05 June 2023

The 'Garryowen' - Ireland’s secret weapon

Garryowen Football Club is one many great Irish rugby clubs, but its unique feature is that it has a particular facet of the rugby union game named after it...

29 May 2023

History Makers: The Red Roses

29 April 2023 saw the Red Roses play France in Twickenham Stadium’s first ‘stand-alone’ women’s rugby test-match. The day before, a special unveiling ceremony took place in the England Dressing Room...

22 May 2023

The Battle of the Roses by Andrew Rishworth

‘The Battle of the Roses’ is a painting by William Barnes Wollen RI that was completed in 1895. Also known as ‘The Roses Match’, it is based on the rugby union match between Yorkshire and Lancashire on Saturday 24 November 1894...

15 May 2023

#FromTheVaults - Fijian seven-dollar note

As the World Sevens Series arrives at Twickenham this weekend, we are shining a spotlight on these unusual Fijian banknotes in our collection...

09 May 2023

England’s first tour to the southern hemisphere 1963

In the summer of 1963, an England tour party embarked on an historic tour of New Zealand and Australia...

24 April 2023

#FromTheVaults - Red Roses v France 2003

The 29th April 2023 will go down in history, as the Red Roses play their first stand-alone fixture at Twickenham Stadium. Twenty years on, we're looking back to their first fixture at the venue...

17 April 2023

Meet the force behind the formation of Wasps Women

Sue Martineau, nee Bennett, played back row for Wasps, Loughborough, and England B, with only a broken arm preventing her from playing for the national team. Explore how this influential woman changed the rugby landscape in the 1980s...

09 April 2023

Baa-Baas at Easter

The Barbarian Football Club was founded in 1890 by Percy "Tottie" Carpmael and became one of the most famous rugby clubs in the world...

03 April 2023

The Story of Beromama

The earliest references to rugby matches being played in Argentina date to the 1870s but it took until 1939 for the first non-elite rugby club to be founded, in the outlying districts of the city of Buenos Aires...

28 March 2023

Gloucester Rugby: The Players

Gloucester Rugby Heritage, a non-profit charity run by volunteers, has been producing a series of large format books to record the history of the Gloucester Club. The fourth in the series, “Gloucester Rugby: The Players” has been published recently...

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