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...

Monday, 28 January 2019

Desperately seeking live politicians for our wargames

I play wargames as part of my learning. If there is a crisis or potential crisis that takes my professional interest, I print out an A3 ...

Sunday, 30 September 2018

Duke Seifried 1935-2018

Sadly, Duke Seifried, one of the great pioneers of American miniature wargaming has passed away. He was not just a pioneer of American min...

Sunday, 9 September 2018

Professional Wargaming Reaches Escape Velocity in the UK

UK Connections 2018, the professional wargaming conference Around the western world, there are a series of professional wargaming c...

Wednesday, 25 July 2018

New book! The Pentagon Urban COIN Wargame 1966

This is an early example of an early professional counter insurgency game written for the Pentagon to explore gaming an uprising in an ...

Wednesday, 18 July 2018

New book: The Matrix Games Handbook: Professional Applications from Education to Analysis and Wargaming

This is the latest book to be published by the History of Wargaming Project Matrix Games are an established way of running semin...

Monday, 4 June 2018

Wargaming and UK culture

Wargaming used to be an obscure hobby, but now the UK's population has some awareness of wargaming. The evidence for this: T...

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

The Civil Wars of Wargaming Part II- the cost

Having established the fact that many of the early wargamers were at war with each other in a loud, aggressive and often abusive manner, w...

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

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