EditorialJousting toys: knights on horseback with helmet, shield and lance, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialUpper illustration, men on horseback hawking. Lower illustration, ladies hawking. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles...
EditorialSaxon hawking. This engraving shows a Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks, by the bank of a river, waiting for the rising of the game. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may gam...