730 board games from the British Museum's collection are
online. Many are from the bequest of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, (who also collected fans and playing cards). I focussed first on those from 1790-1800 (103 of them: British, continental and oriental) and then on the 45 Game of the Goose (see screen shot). All have excellent images and metadata.
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There is currently an exhibition of French 18th century board games at Waddesdon Manor:
Playing, learning, flirting: printed board games from eighteenth century France at Waddesdon Manor. The games (mainly
Le Jeu de l'Oie, the Game of the Goose, and its variations) have also been recently catalogued but are not yet online. Several are exquisitely hand-coloured. The exhibition runs until October 28th 2012, with study sessions on July 20 and September 21. There is an article on the collection and exhibition by curator Rachel Jacobs in the Summer 2012 edition of
The Ephemerist.
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