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230.—Hawking. From Cotton MS. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“All ranks of the Anglo-Saxons delighted in the chace. The young nobles were trained to hunting after their school-days of Latin, as we are told in Asser’s ‘Life of Alfred.’ [...] The illumination of [...]

Keywords: sports, people, birds, falconry, saxon england, greyscale

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Added: 2007-04-28

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Scotland. A Record of Fifty Years’ Work (1901)

From “An overland journey to the Great Eghibition of 1851” By Richard Doyle. Published for the Brothers Dalziel by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. “We gave Doyle a commission to do a Panorama of an Overland [...]

Keywords: people, musical instruments, sports, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-01-08

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792.—Ancient Quintain. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The sports of the [twelfth-century] Norman lords [...] the noble students of chivalry practised military sports, of which the principal was the quintain, in which the young man tilted with his lance a [...]

Keywords: sports, people, jousting, greyscale

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Added: 2011-05-12

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One of Multum in Parvo’s “going” days. Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

Parvo here is a rather strong-willed horse...We see the horse leaping past the hunting-dogs. The man riding the horse is a “toff” or country gentleman of the upper class, and hence portrayed as a lit [...]

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour

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Added: 2011-07-03

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1254.—Jousting Tournament. Harleian MS. 4379 Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This wood engraving shows two knights on their horses, charging towards one another with their lances pointed. In the background are great tents or marquees and a watching audience. The heraldic arms [...]

Keywords: jousting, sports, chivalry, knights, tents, people, contests, riding, weapons, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-04

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1376.—St. Albans Hawking Party Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Falconry in the 15th century, with St. Albans Abbey in the background.

The image is signed S. Johnson, which could be the name of the artist who drew the picture or of the engraver or both.

Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, abbeys, falconry, greyscale

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Added: 2007-04-30

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1381.—Trap-Ball. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This game may be similar to Ball-and-Trap or Knurr and Spell, two traditional English ball-games that are still played. If so, the ball is on a see-saw an the play will hit the other end of it to mak [...]

Keywords: sports, games, people, balls, costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2012-08-12

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1384.—Golf, or Bandy-ball. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

(From a M.S. in the Douce Collection.)

Two men play an ancient form of golf, called bandy-ball. The game was fashionable in the beginning of the 17th C. amongst the English gentry.

Keywords: games, people, sports, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-14

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1387.—Leaping through a Hoop. (ANcient MS. engraved in Strutt’s Sports) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A boy, barefoot, stands with arms outstretched; perhaps he has been running. He is about to jump or leap through a ring or hoop held by his two smiling play-mates. ...and if the boys leap through thei [...]

Keywords: games, sports, children, people, greyscale

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Added: 2012-08-11

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1390.—Shuttle-Cock (From a MS. in the Douce Collection.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Two boys or men are seen playing shuttlecock with wide bats. Is this an early form of badminton?

Keywords: sports, games, people, greyscale

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Added: 2010-10-10

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1787.—Hunting. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Men hunting deer with dogs and horses. In the background a church steeple, reminding us that this is supposed to be a typical country scene.

Keywords: hunting, sports, animals, churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2007-10-26

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1788.—Hawking. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“There was one sport exclusively confined to the noble and wealthy orders of society—hawking—which chiefly flourished and declined during the present period [the first half of the 17th century]. To a [...]

Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, falconry, greyscale

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Added: 2007-04-28

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