Over the concluding calendar week I've been having a lot of fun playing alongside the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in. The plug-in allows y'all to map museum documents in addition to manuscripts using the Leaflet,js mapping library.
's Spectacular Compendium of Victorian Map Games uses the plug-in to showcase some of the 18th & 19th century map race games owned yesteryear the Bodleian Library. These board games were used to entertain children piece too educational activity a picayune geography. The geography which was taught was seen from a particluar imperialistic western perspective (or from a distinctly racist perspective on occasion).
All 7 games inwards this collection are race games. The objective inwards each game was for the players to boot the bucket roughly the map board equally chop-chop equally possible. Each of these games either came alongside a 'teetotum' spinner (which players spun to decide the pose out of moves on the board) or came alongside dice. Some of the games too came alongside classify booklets which provided geographical or historical information on some of the locations featured.
