Games Britannia Part 2

In this episode, Woolley starts by tracing the political and social impact that board games had in Britain during the last 200 years. Britain was the country that came up with the idea of a board game and then exported it to the Americas. It was an idea that it could be used as a tool of moral instruction.
America then adapted it and used it to promote the American Dream

Woolley carries on by tracing the development of board games through the post-war era. Cluedo, Scrabble and Monopoly were, to some, a Holy Trinity of British games that are still bought and played to this day.


In the modern day, board games have evolved to include a wide range of fantasy role-playing such as Dungeons and Dragons, an invention from America. Here in the UK we still produce small political games which play on satire.