Peter Berthoud
MJC games were invented by British Merchant Navy prisoners in a German POW camp during the Second World War to boost morale. The Marine Jockey Commission later turned their creations into popular commercial board games published by Pepys, including Horse Racing To-night, Horsie Horsie, Five-A-Side and Home Cricket. This is their remarkable story.
Before this poster was created hardly anyone had seen the word "Fitzrovia" in print and virtually nobody would have recognised...
Samuel Leigh's map, a Panorama of Remarkable Remarkable Objects in London, was designed to help visitors navigate the extraordinary...
Mullord Brothers' card game version of the fairytale Cinderella, illustrated by Charles Eade. 1. Cinderella, 2. The Cruel Stepmother, 3....
Mullord Brothers' card game version of the familiar alphabetic Nursery Rhyme Apple Pie, wonderfully illustrated by Charles Eade. A Apple...
Dunlop issued their attractive "Map of Central London and its Literary Associations" as a magazine advertisment and as a leaflet. The...
In 1947 Francis Chichester first published his "Heart of London" pictorial map as a jigsaw and a folding map. In 1951 the map was greatly...
40 Thieves and How to Catch Them. A Newly Invented Game. Very Funny, Easy to Play, Exciting, Interesting. For Old Young. Henry Reason's...
Gerrymanders is a novel and amusing antique card game, combining a little dark humour, the surreal and (optionally) lots of noise....
In comparison to his other achievements Francis Chichester's maps and jigsaws are often forgotten. His splendid "Heart of London" map and...
"Much Fun! Easily Played, Great Excitement" The Game of Parliament is a rare Victorian card game by Henry Reason. It features a gallery...
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese of London City. The Literateurs' Haunt for 300 Years or The Book of The Cheese This book was published around a century ago. If the current pub's owners were minded to produce a new version today they could get away with using the same illustrations. The Eight Edition of "The Book of the Cheese" 1923 "The Book of The Cheese - Being Traits and Stories of 'Ye Olde Cheshire…
In the early 1920s the Improved Wood Pavement Company issued a promotional map of London showing the extent of their wood paved roads,...
Struwwelpeter or Naughty children : A Merry Card Game for Good Children Published by A.N. Myers of Berners Street, London in 1888....
Ups and Downs: A Card Game - Published by A.N. Myers of Berners Street, London in 1885 The attractive Myers' card game of Ups Downs...
Published in 1910 By J.Jaques Son Ltd of Hatton Garden, London. Weights Measures is a simple card game, played like Happy Families.
"Map of the River Thames" by Joseph Mears Launches Motors Ltd. of 5 Hill Street, Richmond around 1914. Cartography by George Philip Ltd.
19th Century game of Dickens Snap, Dickens Series. Sold as two half-packs, with eight characters on 32 cards in each. W.F.Good, Hull maker?
Jubilee of the first election of Winston Spencer Churchill to Parliament, Savoy Hotel October 31st 1950, Menu
The Festival of Britain opened in 1951, this image was produced in 1950 for Efroc Ltd by Brian Tilbrook father Reginald Tilbrook