After a conversation with my wife this morning, in which I got a completely and utterly blank look when I asked (not that this is unusual, but.. :D), and a matching one with my colleague at work, I'm forced to turn the question to my wider audience:
Does anyone else remember the Jackdaw series of history folders at school? This would be around the seventies. Essentially they were a series of folders on particular topics in history containing several of what, if I remember rightly, were termed broadsheets of general text about the topic, plus a whole bunch of facsimile documents from the era in question.
I vividly remember school having the 1066, Romans and Domesday book ones, and there's a part of me pretty sure (and this is why I'm remembering it now) that I read about the Battle of Towton from one.
What's maddening is I can't find a list of the UK titles online (the US ones appear to be still in print, but the US isn't a complete list - see for example Richard III and the English Civil War in the picture above, which aren't on the US list).
WAB, WECW, Dux Britanniarum, IABSM3 and many other wargames rules, mostly in 28 and 15mm.
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
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Yes absolutely.. I could usually be found with my nose in one!
ReplyDeleteYep. In fact my one on Waterloo during a recent clearout.
ReplyDeleteMy Peninsular War one lists 115 titles plus 24 Canadian ones
ReplyDeleteOoo. Would there be any chance of a scan or photo of that list? Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteAnother here, I had the Battle of Britain one from the IWM. It had a massive map of 1940s Britain and counters for the various British and German squadrons, so you could play at being a RAF fighter controller. I played with it forever... sadly missed. :-(
ReplyDeleteMe too.... loved them... I seem to remember that for a lid my age at the time they were quite expensive (in comparative terms)...
ReplyDeleteThey sound like very useful teaching/learning resources, and, typically for anything that even remotely approaches worthwhileness, got themselves discontinued....
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