Friday Photo: Suffrage, the Board Game

Further proof of our theory that the history of the world can be written through its board games: Pank-A-Squith, a women’s suffrage-themed game manufactured in the early 1900s. Designed to edify and delight in the suffragette palette of green, white, and violet, Pank-A-Squith was named for political activist Emmeline Pankhurst and then newly installed British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, a vocal opponent of women’s suffrage. A catchier name—say, Votes for Women, Sufferin’ Suffrage!, or Mall Madness—may have boosted sales, but the fine German craftsmanship has stood the test of time (a century, to be exact).