History of Wargaming Project

The Project aims to research and publish key works in the development of professional, hobby and educational use of wargaming. It currently includes work from Donald Featherstone, Fletcher Pratt, Peter Perla, Phil Barker,Fred Jane, Charles Grant, Stuart Asquith and Terry Wise...

Friday, 31 August 2012

Education Research

While having no relevance to wargaming at all, some of my research on student excuses in higher education has hit the national media. Ti...

Monday, 20 August 2012

Autobiography in Simulation and Gaming Journal

I was a little suprised to recieve a request for an autobiography of me by Simulation and Gaming Journal . This academic journal is the pre...

Friday, 10 August 2012

Surprise Battalion Parachute Drop on Belarus

On the 4 th of July 2012, a Swedish public relations firm dropped 879 toy teddy-bears by parachute on the town of Ivenets near Minsk in...

Monday, 6 August 2012

Connections conference on game design in US

There is an excellent write up of the Connections Conference about game design. Write up on paxsims The conference is the American equivil...

Friday, 3 August 2012

John Keegan historian passes away

Sir John Keegan, well-known tactical military historian, aged 78 has just passed away. To me, his best books were the Face of Battle and S...

Friday, 20 July 2012

George Gush Quote

George Gush and Andrew Finch's "A Guide to Wargaming" "...the wargame general's skill, like that of his real counte...

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Brits in Basra v Northern Ireland

I have been working on a simulation of urban counter insurgency. I noted in difference in troop numbers between the British occupation of Ba...

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John Curry Editor History of Wargaming Project: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/john-curry/

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