Episode Two - The Myth of Vagrantsong
Strap in for a ride through the real world histories behind a game of cutesy ghosts and vagrants on a mystical train - this time things are not quite what they seem.
Episode One - The Industrial Revolution
What in the world is London Time? How do you transport sheep via canals? And why exactly are we making forks? Join Elaine as she showcases how board games explore the industrial revolution and its ramifications in the very first episode of Board Game Biographies.
References:
Cotton Seed Sprouts on the Moon's Far Side in Historic First by China's Chang'e 4 | Space
Trains 1830 to 1900 - History Learning Site
A Navvy’s Life: A look at the life of the Navigators who shaped Britain | Drainfast Ltd
Children in the Cotton Industry - Weaste Cemetery (weasteheritagetrail.co.uk)
Avocet Hardware Group Ltd · Company History (elizatinsley.co.uk)
Eleanor Coade | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson
Britain's cotton industry and the slave trade - YouTube
(Portrait of a lady: the female entrepreneur in England and Wales, 1851-1911 | LSE Business Review)
(A Railroad Track is the Width of Two Horses (naciente.com))
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course Black American History #1 - YouTube
Time Team Season 16, Episode 5 Blood, Sweat, and Beers Risehill, North Yorkshire - YouTube
The Children Who Built Victorian Britain Part 1 - YouTube
Twelve Years a Slave (slaverystories.org)
Black British history you're not taught in schools | Alt History - BBC - YouTube
An Introduction to Georgian England | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk)
RailwayRamblers – Exploring old railways
Victorians New Middle Class - YouTube (chocolate and cheese)
Navvies: workers who built the railways | National Railway Museum
The Victorian Belief That a Train Ride Could Cause Instant Insanity - Atlas Obscura
Maritime Business Women : Helen Doe
Sir Richard Arkwright’s Masson Mills-News: Silver Found 2006
"Important to Railway Travellers." Illustrated London News, 14 May 1842, p. 16. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003, link.gale.com/apps/doc/HN3100004367/ILN?u=herlib&sid=bookmark-ILN&xid=b58d72d0
Episode Zero - Space
Can we inhabit Mars? Will we ever meet aliens? And what lies beyond our solar system? Join Elaine as she explores how board games answer these questions in the prototypical episode of Board Game Biographies.