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The Vintage Wargaming Index to Wargamer's Newsletter

Please use the link below to download a read only copy of the Vintage Wargaming Index to Wargamer's Newsletter.

The Vintage Wargaming Index to Wargamer's Newsletter

This is not complete and if you have any information from any of the missing issues we would be pleased to hear from you.

This index is provided to Vintage Wargaming readers for personal (and no commercial) use. Please acknowledge Vintage Wargaming if you refer to this index anywhere else.


12 comments:

  1. Robert (Bob) Cordery15 January 2013 at 18:43

    Well done! This is a very useful resource to have at one's fingertips.

    It was a pleasure to look back through the contents of the old Newsletter ... and to notice my own name featured therein.

    All the best,

    Bob

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  2. Phil Dutré21 August 2015 at 08:47

    ... File not Found ... is the error message I get when trying to access the link above.

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  3. Vintage Wargaming21 August 2015 at 09:53

    Phil I have replaced it with a dropbox link and hopefully will work now

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  4. Phil Dutré21 August 2015 at 10:44

    Thanks! It works now.

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  5. Michael "Reggie" Davis15 April 2019 at 23:46

    I cannot thank you enough for taking the time and effort to compile your Index to Wargamer's Newsletter. What an incredible service and archive. Thank you.

    I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this, but please indulge me. I am very interested in several articles that appeared in Wargamer's Newsletter in 1965. The reason is, I was fortunate to attend the 1965 Waterloo 150th anniversary/commemorative game at the Duke of York's Headquarters. I was 12 years old at the time, my brother 10. Our father took us to the event, crashing our Ford Anglia somewhere in Chelsea as we struggled to find the location but continuing nonetheless. This event changed my life and I have been a wargamer and collector of miniatures ever since. My brother and I attended the 200th Anniversary event at Waterloo in 2015.

    I have been trying to find material on the 150th event for years. Of course, Wargamer's Newsletter would cover the event, but I had no access to copies or even the issue information, until now. Issues 37 and 38 seem to contain relevant articles. Would it be possible to obtain copies of these issues via a digital scan? I would be most grateful for this.

    A few years later, my brother and I attended a wonderful wargames group that met at the "Wellington" pub near Waterloo Station and enjoyed some wonderful evenings in the company of mostly older gentlemen who shared their knowledge, enthusiasm and even figures with my brother and I. This must have been about 1967-1968. Do you know anything about this Club? I do recall they sponsored an amazing day of games at the Connaught Hotel which we also attended.

    So yes, I am a Vintage Wargamer. My own, rather eclectic Blog is:

    http://horseandmusket2.blogspot.com/

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  6. Vintage Wargaming16 April 2019 at 22:22

    Hi Reggie

    In theory yes - but it may be a bit more difficult in practice, as first I would have to locate the box with those issues in it (and it is certainly not where I last remember seeing it) and then I would need to do the scans and post them up. I will look into it but it may take a while I am afraid.

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  7. Vintage Wargaming16 April 2019 at 23:18

    Reggie - have found them BUT - my complete run starts at around #51 - and is very sketchy before that - I don't have the issues you are looking for (when I compiled the index people helpfully sent me information about what was in numbers I am missing). Sorry to disappoint you

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  8. Phil Dutré17 April 2019 at 08:52

    Pictures of the Waterloo game you mention have featured in other wargaming publications as well. I remember seeing at least a few in older books by Donald Featherstone, perhaps others. Is it some general information about the game you want, or the specific article in Wargamers Newsletter?

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  9. Phil Dutré17 April 2019 at 10:18

    See e.g. this link, which has a report on the Waterloo game written by Featherstone. It might very well have been the same text that appeared in Wargemer's Newsletter.
    http://unfashionablyshiny.blogspot.com/2014/03/gilder-and-waterloo-150.html

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  10. Phil Dutré15 April 2020 at 17:29

    A large number of scans of Wargames Newsletter are available from: http://www.fourcats.co.uk/mags/

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  11. Vintage Wargaming15 April 2020 at 18:43

    Thanks Phil, I am well aware of this.

    My difficulty with it that no effort has been made to obtain permission from the owners of the content (Don Featherstone's estate) for the use and publication of all this material and therefore I cannot support it. Don Featherstone kindly gave me permission when setting up Vintage Wargaming to use any material from WN I would like - I would not have posted up articles without his permission. The Index is a different matter as it was publishing the results of new research to enable people to identify where they might find what they were looking for.

    While appreciating the amount of work that has gone into this scanning and that it makes the content of WN available to many who wouldn't otherwise be able to see it, I personally can't support it. I have pretty much a full run of paper copies from #60 to the end with other odds and ends.

    My own position on Sources, Permissions and Editorial Policy is on the side bar on the home page of Vintage Wargaming, after the list of Labels, and has been there since day one.

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  12. Peter Little24 January 2021 at 08:10

    Thank you for this wonderful blog, long may it continue.....

    Regards

    Peter

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