27/11/14
Today we watched the second part to the Games Britannia three part series, Monopolies and Mergers. In this episode presenter and historian Benjamin Wooley, talks about the political and social impact that board games have had over the last 200 years in Britain. He investigates how the British developed the idea of board games being used as an instrument of moral instruction.
One of these was the game Monopoly, this is one of the best selling games in history. It was based on a radical socialist game from Britain in 1913. Benjamin Wooley then showed us the progession and development of games such as Scrabble and Cluedo and how games have evolved into what we play today.
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