Balkan Wargamer

 I was in Durham today en route to Middlesborough for tomorrow's Battleground wargames show. I haven't been for many years, and its ...

 This is the latest in my Nigel Tranter reread project. It covers the period when Mary Queen of Scots was the Queen Regnant, Scotland's ...

 This book has been sitting in my reading pile for a while. A book I should read, but anything to do with the Ustaše is bound to be a grim r...

 This is a somewhat obscure tome written by Kevin Byrne, which I picked up in a secondhand bookshop. It celebrates Clan Donald of Colonsay, ...

 This WW2 fiction is part of a series based on Gus Beaumont, an RAF pilot who flies a remarkable (probably a bit too impressive) array of ai...

 The latest in my Nigel Tranter reread tells the story of Sir John Maxwell, Warden of the West March, during the middle of the 16th century....

 The Targe show is held in the small town of Kirrienuir in Angus. It used to be a full-scale show in the high school, but it is now more of ...

 I was travelling to Angus today for the Targe wargames show tomorrow in Kirriemuir. I haven't visited the Black Watch Museum in Balhous...

A uniform used by a local sailor to trick his way out of prison during the Napoleonic Wars, which is on display at the National Maritime Mus...