First Female Gamers - Interesting article about women in wargaming

[Jorny]

Found this gem in my Facebook feed. Very interesting article on the history of wargames and gaming.

https://medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers-c784fbe3ff37

[Tactalvanic]

Nice find, interesting article.

Always find it interesting to see how "gaming"  used to be, and insights into how it evolved and continues to.

 

[shandy]

Very interesting, thanks a lot for the link!

[FramFramson]

Fantastic, eminently shareable article. A great overall look at the early history of the "gamer" label in general. Thanks!

EDIT: The author deserves serious credit for the exhaustive citation of primary sources (including many images of actual primary sources) and extremely detailed research. This is academic-grade scholarship.

[shandy]

His book Playing at the World, though mainly a history of role-playing games, contains a wealth of information on the history of wargaming. It may be a bit concentrated at the US scene, as is often the case with studies that deal with wargames as forerunners of RPGs - see the more popular but very readable Of Dice and Men by Ewalt.
Anyway, fascinating stuff and good to see that games are investigated in a thorough and scholarly fashion.

[warlord frod]

Excellent find. As a former history teacher I am impressed and have taken a look at some of the other things he has done Such as the history of D & D in 12 treasures on youtube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EVQsIETO_A Check it out

[black hat miniatures]

Apparently one of the best teams playing the Fletcher-Pratt games was made up of seamstresses as they were used to estimating lengths of cloth and therefore good at guessing ranges...

Mike

[6milPhil]

What a solidly good read, here's the blokes blog: http://playingattheworld.blogspot.co.uk/

[redzed]

nice read

[vodkafan]

That was a very interesting article. I am not surprised that D&D was a conduit for women to get interested in gaming, lots of fantasy genre novels have always been written by and for a female market.

[von Lucky]

Thanks for that - Jon Peterson is definitely passionate, but also articulate. Really interesting articles and videos.