I wanted to get this book review out quickly as it is a great book that a lot of HEMA people especially will appreciate, as examples of warrior women going about their business.  I know people who read my reviews, well both of you, will probably notice a pattern of me saying well I never […]

This book is part of the Campaign Chronicles series published by Pen and Sword Books.I have been a lot of reading about the viking period recently as we look to start a viking combat study group. Historical sources and sagas are a great place to start but so is looking at the campaigns and battlefields.Pen […]

This book is part of the following in the footsteps series published by Pen and Sword Books.Edward II is one of those Kings, I don’t know much about but his reigns sits on the edge of the period we train in combat in.With Edward I as your father I can guess why he gets overlooked […]

How European Thugs Became English GentryAn interesting take on Norman history period as the author looks a 12 generations of the same family to see how the nation developed.The book follows the fortunes of the descendants of Osbern Fitz Tezzo who appears to have come to England with William the Conqueror. He appears in the […]