Thus the issue on the Norman conquest of Wales had an article about the Normans and medieval Irish on film, the Vikings article concentrated on Ragnar Lothbrok (since he was the focus of that issue) and the Robin Hood article looked at that hero from the perspective of the First Baron's War. After the first two articles (on Arthur – although here I have returned them to their long, single article version), each would be written, as much as was possible, to conform to the theme of each issue of the magazine. In all cases the first step in researching them was to view the film itself. These articles were writing for an informed general audience and so do not include references although each article has a further reading segment. I have continued to write articles for the series but I have (I think) become better at staying closer to the word limit. Nonetheless, in their original state I consider they have interesting things to say so I have collected them here (up to Issue 7.2 – the first six articles). Many of these additional words necessarily found their way into the editing bin. Being incredibly enthused by this fascinating subject, I consistently soared over the word limit assigned to these pieces (which, due to space constraints could only ever run to two pages) and found I had written articles thousands of words more than was required. This quickly became a regular column in the bimonthly magazine.

Beginning in April 2016 I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute a series of articles on medieval warfare on film to the pages of Medieval Warfare Magazine.

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