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How not to play
Here are seven ways to sidestep doing as you’re told in a game. But strangely, they seem to be as much a part of playing as the game itself.
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How to play with people who are better than you
It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
Catalogue
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Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 553759i- Pictures
An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 24878i
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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 25290i
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A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
Date: [C. 1800]Reference: 16164i- Archives and manuscripts
Dr Mary Barton and Dr Bernard Sandler
Date: 3 December 1958Reference: SA/EUG/D/251/2Part of: Eugenics Society