Vintage Wargaming

Over on the Lone S Ranger blog I have posted some information on these figures. There are a number of figures which I have not been able def...

HG Wells famously used matchstick-firing artillery models in his Little Wars, but he would have been seriously outgunned by Franz Stollberg,...

One of the early books which seems to get unjustly neglected is Gavin Lyall's Operation Warboard (though it does have a number of strong...

I've been keeping an eye on the blog counter this evening and it has just gone past 100,000 hits. Thanks to everyone who visits, or comm...

I'm not really sure which blog to put this on, so I'm posting it here and on the Hinton Hunter. This weekend saw a visit almost to t...

This and the following three posts have been made in response to a request from Chris, who was looking for specific articles from early issu...

by Gary L. Bloomfield, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA Magazine, February 1995.

Watching the cricket match episode of Dad's Army today (the one with Fred Truman) reminded me I hadn't posted Terry Wise's Opera...

Two more undated articles, the second is from around but after 1971. I don't know which publications they are from. I apologise for the ...

M S Foy's and Anonymous's comments on the Waterloo refight at the Duke of York Barracks (below, here ) have made the connection wit...

Third and final instalment on a theme, this time from the Cambridge Evening News of Saturday 13 1972. I think one line of the article may ha...

David Wesely, one of the subjects of the 1966 article posted below, has been in touch. This has proved one of the most widely read posts on ...

Another Don Featherstone photograph, again undated, and captioned "Wellington and Napoleon at the start of a reconstructed Battle of Wa...

I don't have a date or attribution for this cutting - I think it is from the Southampton Echo, and possibly from the 1970s?

With apologies again for the quality of the scans (given the condition of the original they are the best I could do on my scanner...

Further to my previous posts on Lionel Tarr, here are what appear to be some original photographs of his wargame set up in his loft, for hi...