Title: Life in the 18th Century
Headings: EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 18th CENTURY
EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE 18th CENTURY
Society in 18th Century Britain
Population in 18th Century Britain
Towns in 18th Century England
Agriculture in 18th Century England
Food in the 18th Century
Houses in the 18th Century
Clothes in the 1700s
Leisure in the 18th Century
Education in the 18th Century
Transport in the 18th Century
Medicine in the 18th Century
Art and Science in the 18th Century
Technology in the 18th Century
Religion in the 18th Century

Content: Women wore stays (a bodice with strips of whalebone) and hooped petticoats under their dresses. Women in the 18th century did not wear knickers. Fashionable women carried folding fans. Fashion was very important for the rich in the 18th century but poor people's clothes hardly changed at all. Leisure in the 18th Century
Traditional games remained popular in the 18th century. These included games such as chess, draughts, and backgammon. They also tennis and a rough version of football. It is believed dominoes was invented in China. It reached Europe in the 18th century. Then in 1759, a man named John Jeffries invented an entirely new board game called A Journey Through Europe or The Play of Geography in which players race across a map of Europe.