Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Image White’s ‘Betting-book’, A. Bourke, The History of White’s (1892), vol. 2 Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘The Jockey Club or Newmarkert Meeting’, 1811, The Met Museum, … 15 (Thursday May 9, 1754) 2 . Geoffrey Clark, ‘Life insurance in the society and culture of London, 1700-75’, Urban History, (vol. 24, n° 1, May 1997), p. 25. 3 . The South Sea Bubble corresponds to the speculative fever on the South Sea … dated 1743, was integrally published in the second volume of the official historian of the club Algernon Bourke’s History of White’s (1892). Brooks’s ‘Betts’ book’, held at the London Metropolitan Archives, is also a rich source, with …
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