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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Happy Families
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Card game in which the pack is made up of families of four cards (father and mother, son and daughter), each based on a trade and appropriately named – Mr Bun the Baker, Mrs Bun the Baker's Wife and so on. The purpose is to collect them as complete families. The game was marketed from the mid-19C and had a predecessor called Spade the Gardener.
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