Regency Pastimes: Trundle Hoop
Sports of Childhood. (1834). United Kingdom: Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-street. This was not an exclusive pastime of the Regency, or even Britain that matter, as most cultures Continue
Sports of Childhood. (1834). United Kingdom: Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-street. This was not an exclusive pastime of the Regency, or even Britain that matter, as most cultures Continue
The young lady’s book: a manual of elegant recreations, exercises, and pursuits. (1829). United Kingdom: (n.p.). Martin, T. (1813). The Circle of the Mechanical Arts, Containing Practical Treatises on the Continue
The Book of Games, Or, A History on [i.e. Of] Juvenile Sports Practised at the Kingston Academy: Illustrated with Twenty-four Copperplates. (1822). United States: George Long, no. 71 Continue
Child, L. M. (1833). The Girl’s Own Book. Ireland: Clark Austin & Company. By the Victorian era, this seems to have evolved into the Mulberry Bush game: Mackarness, M. A. P. (1888). The Young Lady’s Book: Continue