ODL: Writing Blanks and Board Games
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All 18th and 19th century board games in the John Johnson Collection (mostly single sheets) and all Educational writing blanks from the Johnson, Opie and Harding Collections have been digitised, together with other games of the same period, selected for their educational content.
Writing blanks (also known as school pieces) were usually given to children at Christmas. They would fill the space within the printed, and often hand-coloured, borders with a sample of their handwriting. The completed school piece would then be given to parents, relations or friends.
Subjects represented in the games and writing blanks include: Arithmetic, Art, Astronomy, Geography, History, Literature, Spelling, and Religion.
The Oxford Digital Library also contains images from the John Johnson Collection in its collection on 18th century Entertainment.
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