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An introduction to the game of draughts. Containing fifty select games, Together with Many critical Situations for Drawn Games, Won Games, and Fine Strokes. The Whole designed for the Instruction of Young Players, in this innocent and delightful Amusement. By William Payne, teacher of mathematics.
Payne, William, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
Ancient ball games / by Fred B. Lund.
Date: 1938- Books
Medicine-ball exercises and games / by E. Major.
Major, Ernest.Date: 1939- Pictures
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Two scenes of people in mediaeval costume playing games with a bat and ball. Etching.
Reference: 34354i- Books
Children's games with things : marbles, fivestones, throwing and catching, gambling, hopscotch, chucking and pitching, ball-bouncing, skipping, tops and tipcat / by Iona and Peter Opie.
Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.Date: 1997- Ephemera
Goalball : Copper Box, Olympic Park : 30 August : start time: 18:30.
Date: 2012- Books
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A help to magistrates, and Ministers of Justice: also a guide to parish and ward-officers. Containing, 1. Plain Directions for Justices of the Peace 2. To their Clerks. 3. Of Grand and Petty Juries, &c. 4. Penalties upon Forestallers of Markets Fairs, &c. 5. Some Directions to Coroners and their Inquests, &c. 6. Of Mayors of Towns, and the several Branches of their Office. 7. The Office and Duty of a High Constable, Petty-Constable, Headborough, Tything-Man, Bailiff, &c. 8. The Office and Duty of Church wardens and Sidesmen. 9. The Office and Duty of the Oversees of the Poor 10. The Office and Duty of Toll-Keepers and Fair-Keepers. 11. The Office and Duty of Surveyors of High ways, Scavengers, &c. 12. The Office and Duty of Officers in respect of the Preservation of the Game, with several Cases. 13. Observations about Games and Gaming-Houses, with the Penalties. 14. Of laying Wagers, &c. with Cases adjudg'd. The sixth edition. With considerable amendments, and additions, ag[r]eeable to the several Acts of Parliament in these Cases made and provided, not in any former Impression. By P. S. gent.
P. S.Date: 1721- Books
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Instructions for playing the chronological and historical game of England, according to Mons. L'abbe Gaultier's method.
Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Archives and manuscripts
M0009198: Reproduction of an image of people playing a ball game
Date: 06 September 1945- Books
Deck sports : a guide, complete with rules, to sports, games and gymnastics on board ship : with an appendix dealing with the getting up of entertainments : a manual for passengers and the mercantile marine / M.H. Feddersen.
Feddersen, M. H.Date: 1931- Books
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New articles of the game of cricket, as settled and revised at the Star and Garter, Pall-Mall, February the 25th, 1774; by a committee of noblemen and gentlemen of Kent, &c. Embellished with a neat emblametical [sic] representation of the game.
Date: [1780?]- Pictures
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St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.
Reference: 38750i- Books
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An address to persons of fashion, containing some particulars relating to balls: and a few occasional hints concerning play-houses, card-tables, &c. In which is introduced the character of Lucinda, a lady of the very best fashion, and of most extraordinary piety. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]
Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The sportsman's dictionary: or, the country gentleman's companion, in all rural recreations: With full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. With the Method of Breeding, Curing, Dieting, and Ordering of Horses, Dogs, Pigeons, Cocks, &c. Extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, Ancient, and Modern. With large improvements, made by several gentlemen well experienced in these noble exercises. Illustrated with near thirty copper-plates, representing the different Kinds of Nets, Engines, and Traps, that are made use of in taking all Sorts of Game. The second edition. In one volume.
Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Pictures
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A cricket ball has hit a batsman in the face as he plays a game on the cricket field. Colour lithograph after G. Finch Mason, 1898.
Mason, Finch.Date: 1898Reference: 34403i- Pictures
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A group of men playing a game outside with a ball and nine pins, a woman watches from a doorway. Engraving by A. Laurent, 1743, after David Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690Date: [1743?]Reference: 33169i- Books
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Astrology improv'd: or, a compendium of the whole art of that most noble science. In five parts wherein I. The many errors of other writers upon this subject are corrected. II. Necessary Rules, Figures and Judgment upon every House, for the better understanding of Horary Questions. III. Astrolo-Physical Judgments upon Diseases, and the best Method of curing them by Herbs; with variety of Receipts Alphabetically digested. IV. True Judgments upon Nativities, and Elections relating to Buying, Selling, Gaming, Racing, Travelling, Love, Marriage, &c. V. A New and most certain Way how to know and judge the Inclination of the Air, and Alteration of the Weather at all Seasons The like not to be found in any other Author. By Richard Ball, student in astrology and physick.
Ball, Richard, astro-mathematicus.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The British housewife: or, the cook, housekeeper's, and gardiner's companion. Calculated for the Service both of London and the Country; And directing what is necessary to be done in the Providing for, Conducting, and Managing a Family throughout the Year. Containing a general account of fresh provisions of all Kinds. Of the several foreign Articles for the Table, pickled, or otherwise preserved; and the different Kinds of Spices, Salts, Sugars, and other Ingredients used in Pickling and Preserving at Home: Shewing what each is, whence it is brought, and what are its Qualities and Uses. Together with the Nature of all Kinds of Foods, and the Method of suiting them to different Constitutions; a bill of fare for each month, the Art of Marketing and chusing fresh Provisions of all Kinds; and the making as well as chusing of Hams, Tongues, and other Store Dishes. Also Directions for plain Roasting and Boiling; and for the Dressing of all Sorts of Made Dishes in various Tastes; and the preparing the Desert in all its Articles. Containing a greater Variety than was ever before publish'd, of the most Elegant, yet least Expensive receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Puddings, Preserves, Pickles, Fricassees, Ragouts, Soups, Sauces, Jellies, Tarts, Cakes, Creams, Custards, Candies, Dry'd Fruits, Sweetmeats, Made Wines, Cordials, And Distillery. To which are annexed, the art of carving; and the Terms used for cutting up various Things; and the polite and easy Manner of doing the Honotors of the Table: The whole Practice of Pickling and Preserving: And of preparing made Wines, Beer, and Cyder. As also of distilling all the useful Kinds of Cordial and Simple Waters. With the Conduct of a Family in Respect of Health; the Disorders to which they are every Month liable, and the most approved Remedies for each. And a variety of other valuable particulars, necessary to be known in All Families; and nothing inserted but what has been approved by Experience. Also the Ordering of all Kinds of profitable Beasts and Fowls, with respect to their Choice, their Breeding and Feeding; the Diseases to which they are severally liable each Month, and Receipts for their Cure. Together with the Management of the pleasant, profitable, and useful Garden. The Whole embellished with a great Number of curious copper plates, shewing the Manner of Trussing all Kinds of Game, wild and tame Fowls, &c. as also the Order of setting out Tables for Dinners, Suppers, and Grand Entertainments, in a Method never before attempted; and by which even those who cannot read will be able to instruct themselves. By Mrs. Martha Bradley, late of Bath: Being the Result of upwards of Thirty Years Experience.
Bradley, Martha.Date: [1760?]- Pictures
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People engaged in pleasures (dancing, drinking, gaming, flirting) to counteract the pains of illness and old age. Line engraving attributed to O. van Veen (Vaenius).
Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 643247i- Books
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A bold stroke for a wife. A comedy. By the author of the Busie-Body and the Gamester.
Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Pictures
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Troops attending a muster in Scotland play the game of popinjay, watched by crowds of local people. Engraving by J. Carter, 1836, after R.B. Davis.
Davis, Richard Barrett, 1782-1854.Date: 1836Reference: 32653i- Books
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A panegyrick upon the Maccabees, by St. Gregory Nazianzen: of unseasonable diversions, by Salvian: a description of the manners of the pagan world; a consolatory discourse to the Christians of Carthage, visited by a mortality; of the advantage of patience; these three by St. Cyprian. Done into English by Jeremy Collier, M.A. Together with two essays, viz. Of discontent and of gaming, by the same hand.
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
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Fortune's fickle distribution; In three parts. Containing first, the life and death of moll flanders; who was born in Newgate; debauch'd by her lady's eldest son, and then married to his brother; after whose death, she was twelve years a common whore; twelve years a thief; six times a married wife, once to her own brother; condemned at the Old Baily; eight years a transport; and at last married moll raby's sister in the disguise of a rich planter, who cheated her of what she had, and broke her heart, in the 77th year of her age. Part II. The life of Jane Hackabout, her governness, who was an attorney's daughter, a lady's woman, a whore, a bawd, a pawnbroker, a breeder up of thieves, a receiver of stolen goods, and at last died a penitent. Part III. The life of James Mac-faul, moll flanders's Lancashire husband, who was born in Ireland, came into England; turned gentleman, gamester, highwayman, and at last being transported, died a wealthy merchant at Virginia.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: 1759- Archives and manuscripts
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Rennie, Elliott
Date: 25/07/2009Reference: TP1/A/462Part of: One and Other Project- Videos
Rehabilitation of injured sailors by the Seamen's Hospital Society, London. Reel Two.
Date: 194?