Day 15 of our Heritage Advent Calendar brings our penultimate visit to Chambers’ Book of Days, and with it an entry we recommend you DO NOT try at home. Today we’re looking at one party game in particular, Snap Dragon. We’ll let Chambers explain in his own words. “A quantity of raisins are deposited in…
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Counties on the Cards
Tucked away in the depths of our library stacks is a little box about the size of a cigarette packet. Inside is a complete deck of Robert Morden’s Playing Cards – or, to be strictly accurate, a facsimile of the set, because only one original pack of these particular cards, produced in 1676, is known…
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