''The Playing-Card'' is a quarterly

publication To publish is to make content available to the general public.Berne Convention, articl ...

, publishing scholarly articles covering all aspects of

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s and of the games played with them, produced by the International Playing-Card Society (IPCS). ''The Playing-Card''s articles are mostly in English, but also in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

History

The journal was founded in 1972, as ''The Journal of the Playing-Card Society'' (until 1980). Since then it has produced an annual volume of four (formerly six) issues. It has an index of its articles for the years 1972–1997, and contents listings for issues from 1980 to the present.

Impact

According to card game historian David Parlett, card game

research Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

has become "a particular pursuit" of the IPCS and many of its field researchers publish their findings in ''The Playing-Card''. This has contributed to "a growing awareness that a society's indoor games are as distinctive of its culture as its arts,

cuisine A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, List of cooking techniques, techniques and Dish (food), dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation techniques, ...

, or social customs, and are worth recording for the light they throw on that community's personality."Parlett (2008), p. xi.

Contributors

Notable contributors to the journal have included: * John McLeod * Franco Pratesi * Thierry Depaulis * Trevor Denning * Detlef Hoffmann * Sir Michael Dummett

Editors

The editors of ''The Playing-Card'' and its predecessor have been:The volume and issue numbers of the journal are shown in brackets below. * Sylvia Mann: August 1972 (1/1) – November 1978 (8/2) * Eddie Cass: February 1979 (8/3) – November 1984 (13/2) * Trevor Denning: February 1985 (13/3) – May 1990 (18/4) * Stuart Lawrence: August 1990 (19/1) – May 1995 (23/4) * George Beal: July/August 1995 (25/1) – Jan/Feb 1998 (26/4) * Michael Cooper: July/August 1998 (27/1) – April/June 2006 (34/4) * Peter Endebrock: June/Sept 2006 (35/1) – April/June 2023 (51/4) * Elettra Deganello: July/Sept 2023 (51/1) – present.

References

Bibliography

Parlett, David David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. He is the president of the British Skat Association. Life David Sidney Parlett was bo ...

(2008). ''The Penguin Book of Card Games'', Penguin, London.

External links

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