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How to play in secret

In secret games the strangers around you are playing too. They just don’t know it. Read on for some great ideas for undercover fun at work, school – or almost anywhere.

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Our bodies convey stories through an alphabet of shrugs and shoulder poems. If your shoulders could talk, what poems would they tell?

  • Article

How to play on the District line between Stepney Green and Embankment

From the crossword to the smartphone, distractions for the commuter relieve the tedium of crowded, dull journeys. Game designer Holly Gramazio delves into the world of games for trains.

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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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  • Visual alphabet.
  • The Lycian alphabet.
  • The Georgian, ancient and modern, alphabet
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.
  • Hands showing the French sign language alphabet. Wood engraving.
  • Hands showing the alphabet of sign language. Wood engraving.
  • A comparison chart of five different alphabet systems. Engraving.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured line engraving.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving, 1748.
  • Prince Albert and Queen Victoria instructing their children in the alphabet; a political alphabet frames the image. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
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