EPCS June 2025 Newsletter
Knave of Clubs with Hewson name • Three Kings by Blanchard • Playing Cards in Art: Scots Peers • Snap Cards • Another Transition: McEvoy > Llewellyn > Hall • Playing Cards for Thomas Cook & Son’s Nile Services • Why is Hewson’s Name on 17th Century English Playing Cards? • Cunard’s Canards: an Update • Thomas & John Bewick and the Georgian Card Game • The New Club of Glasgow • Speed: Racehorses (1st-3rd editions) • Horses and Courses • The Pubs of Mitchells & Butlers
The English Playing Card Society's Newsletter
The Society publishes a 30+ page A4 Magazine (including colour plates) which is free to members. This is dispatched three times a year and builds up into a reference source, with an index, containing information which is not readily available through any other source. Members are invited to contribute articles to the Newsletter. Click here to read a sample newsletter.
Benefits of Membership
- We are a Society dedicated to the study and collection of "English Playing Cards", open to all, not just English people.
- English Games are given equal footing alongside English Playing Cards.
- A yearly Meeting.
- Regular 'singles' sales.
- The fellowship of members.
- A regular Members Newsletter/Magazine; click here to read a sample newsletter.
- Access to all back issues.
- We are a good medium to publish research.