Regency Pastimes: Shuttlecock

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

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

I was researching something else entirely and came upon a reference to the game Hunt the Slipper. Every Boy’s Book: A Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports Continue

Popular pastimes, being a selection of picturesque representations of the customs & amusements of Great Britain, in ancient and modern times (1816). This Continue