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, 26 October 2012

Two new books in print

Two new books have just been added to the project. Donald Featherstone's Complete Wargaming. As with many of Donald Featherstone...

Saturday, 13 October 2012

The Top Selling Wargaming Books of All Time

The best selling wargaming book of all time is Donald Featherstone’s War Games. At 30-40,000 copies sold it remains at the top of the...

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Book Review of Jon Peterson’s (2012) Playing at the World

ISBN 9780615642048 As the editor of wargaming books (some mentioned in the bibliography), I was asked by the author to do a review ...

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Mystery of the dawn surge of book sales

I was a little surprised to get a modest surge of Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame sales around dawn (UK time) one Sunday morning. I was intrigu...

Reveille Wargaming Show Sun 25 Nov 2012

I am putting on a participation game at my local club and show. As the great explorer and daughter have been missing for some time, the 1...

Saturday, 8 September 2012

What Really Happened in Ancient and Medieval Battles?

Will Whyler commented on this in the Guardroom pages of Slingshot in March 2012. Even the best documented battles have gaping holes in o...

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...

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

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