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| Keywords: 1823 Royal British Bowmen archery club.jpg J Townshend A print of the 1822 meeting of the Royal British Bowmen archery club 1823 engraving cm object history exhibition history credit line Notice that both men and women members of the society have uniforms the women's uniform was a green dress with yellow at the shoulder puffs and yellow triangles at the bottom hem In the 1806 book Microcosm by William Henry Pyne a number of these archery clubs are mentioned along with a brief capsule history of both working and hobby archery At the time archery was one of the few competitive sports that adult women of the genteel classes could respectably engage in others were battledore/shuttlecock -- a precursor to badminton -- and for a tiny social elite old-fashioned court tennis For a less documentary picture of lady archers see File 1799-pinup-print-archers-Adam-Buck-unbound-hair jpg accession number place of creation Scanned by H Churchyard PD-old-100 1823 engravings Archery in art Fashion in 1822 Archery in Wrexham County Borough Marchwiel | ||||
