Stories
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Rediscovering a love of the game
Sexism and homophobia in football prompted Lara Goodwin to stop playing the sport at 19. Today, while discrimination in the game is still rife, Lara has found hope – and like-minded players – in an inclusive east London club.
- In pictures
The serious side of historical games
Some games carry a weighty message, from the earliest form of snakes and ladders that led to either heaven or hell, to chess pieces representing the dangerous manoeuvres of unsafe sex in the 80s.
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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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Ludwig Guttmann and the birth of the Paralympics
As millions across the world enjoy this year’s Paralympics, discover how the Paralympian movement started life – with an event held by the visionary neurosurgeon Ludwig Guttmann.
Catalogue
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Game and wild animals disporting themselves. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after Moritz Müller, 189-.
Müller, Moritz, 1841-1899.Date: [between 1892 and 1895]Reference: 2897689i- Books
The natural history of game-birds / Illustrated by thirty-one plates, coloured; with memoir and portrait of Sir T. Stamford Raffles.
Jardine, William, 1800-1874.Date: 1834
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Singapore: five separate illustrations of Asian game birds and a weighing device. Watercolours by J. Taylor, 1879.
Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885.Date: 1879Reference: 31970iPart of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.- Pictures
A rural landscape: milkmaids milking cows; hunters shooting game birds. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 2491320i- Pictures
Above, a sailing ship rolling in a rough sea; below, game birds on a moor under stormy clouds. Aquatint by T.H. Fielding.
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781-1851.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 2922171i
