Donald Featherstone in Outer Space Skirmish? Pure Sci-Fi Fantasy!

H G Wells – Little Wars – Donald Featherstone – Sci Fi Gaming – Fantasy Gaming – Gary Gygax – Skirmish Wargaming … and Pound Store Plastic Space Marines!

Crossposted from my Man Of TIN Two blog

https://manoftinblogtwo.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/donald-featherstone-in-outer-space-skirmish-pure-sci-fi-fantasy/

The Battles of Martin’s Hill and Hooks Farm – The imaginary Wars of H G Wells, man and boy

The Battles of Martin’s Hill and Hooks Farm – The imaginary Little Wars of H G Wells, man and boy crossposted from my Man of TIN blog

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/the-battles-of-hooks-farm-and-st-martins-hill-h-g-wells-experiment-in-autobiography-and-little-wars/

More on the early players and shapers of H.G. Wells’ Little Wars 1913 identified

A certain Mr M (centre) & his brother Captain M, (right), “hot from the Great War in Africa …”

Some of the early players and shapers of H.G. Wells’ Little Wars (1913) identified, from the remarkable Masterman family …

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/mr-m-and-his-brother-captain-hot-from-the-great-war-in-south-africa-identified-h-g-wells-and-little-wars-1913/

The Masterman’s influence on Little Wars …

and three more early players identified from Wells’ Edwardian world of authors, politicians and men of letters

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/three-more-players-of-h-g-wells-floor-game-little-wars-1913/

… which saw Wells and fellow authors working for England / Britain’s cause through the War Propaganda Bureau in WW1. The Great War that the final chapter of Little Wars warned us about!

Blog cross posted to this my Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog by Mark Man of TIN 5 February 2021

Bravo Teachers! The Poor Child’s Magic City by E Nesbit in her Wings and The Child 1913

Cocoanut Cottage, Box and Tin Towers from Wings and the Child 1913

Topical thoughts during Lockdown, a useful section on scrap modelling and the making of Magic Cities for all, rich and poor, from E. Nesbit / Edith Nesbit’s Wings and The Child, her version of H.G. Wells’ Little Wars and Floor Games of the same period:

Crossposted from my Man of TIN blog https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/the-poor-childs-city-e-nesbit-on-teachers-schools-and-making-magic-cities-in-wings-and-the-child-1913/

E. Nesbit’s Magic City at the Child Welfare Exhibition, Olympia, late 1912/1913

And Girls Did Play Too? E.Nesbit does Floor Games in Wings and the Child 1913

One of Edith Nesbit’s toy palaces in Wings and the Child 1913, highly reminiscent of Wells’ Floor Games of 1911 and Little Wars 1913 – read a free online copy here:

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/and-girls-did-play-too-e-nesbits-version-of-h-g-wells-floor-games-wings-and-the-child-1911/

Cross posted from my Man of TIN blog, 23 January 2021

The likely identity of Two More Invisible Men behind H G Wells writing Little Wars?

The likely identity of H.G. Wells’ friends, part of the development of Little Wars – Mr W and a dear friend who died? – crossposted from my Man of TIN blog

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/mr-w-and-a-dear-friend-who-died-two-more-invisible-men-behind-little-wars-1913/

Blog cross posted by Mark Man of TIN 23 January 2021

The Invisible Men and Women behind H. G. Wells, Floor Games and Little Wars

Ongoing research into many of the interesting personalities and invisible people behind H. G. Wells’ creation of Floor Games and the wargames classic Little Wars

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/the-invisible-men-and-women-behind-h-g-wells-little-wars-and-floor-games/

Peter Dennis’ splendid illustration to his Little Wars volume in his PaperBoys series.

Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 22 January 2021

G K Chesterton, Mr Turnbull and toy soldiers in The Napoleon of Notting Hill 1904

These days it would be plastic figures but you can still picture the old Toy Soldier collection of Mr Turnbull and his town model of Notting Hill in G K Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904).

Crossposted from my Man of TIN blog

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/16/toy-soldiers-and-the-napoleon-of-notting-hill-by-g-k-chesterton-1904/

H G Wells The New Machiavelli, Old Toy Soldiers, Floor Games and Close Wars

An interesting toy soldier related chapter from H G Wells’ 1911 novel The New Machiavelli that links closely to Floor Games (1911/12) and Little Wars (1913)

Crossposted from my Man of TIN blog by Mark Man of TIN

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/h-g-wells-the-new-machiavelli-1911-toy-soldiers-floor-games-and-little-wars/

The Toy Theatre of War and early Wargamers

Peter Dennis’ Paper Soldiers Little Wars civilians on my Toy Theatre stage

Crossposted from my Man Of TIN blog

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/penny-plain-and-tuppence-coloured-rls-the-toy-theatre-of-war-and-early-wargaming/

Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN 12 December 2020

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