Back issues of Slingshot, the journal of the Society of Ancients, are now available at the bargain price of six for £5 (£4 for Society of Ancients members) plus shipping. That's a year's worth of Slingshots for the price of one magazine.
This offer is only available until the end of June and while stocks last, so get in quickly.
The bundles on offer are for the years 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1987, and for each year from 1996 through to 2010.
To place your order, go to the
Balearic Bundles page in the
store section of the
Society of Ancients website.
See below for a summary of each year's highlights.
Highlights
of the Year 1982
Series on: the Vandals, the Arab conquest
of Egypt, the Republican Roman army 218-168 BC, the ancient Ligurians, later
Roman forts, Courtrai.
Notable articles on: Nicopolis, early
Ottoman armies, armies of the Jarls of Orkney, Brunanburh, campaign
economics.
Start of award-winning series on Charles
the Bold’s armies.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1983
Series on: strategy and tactics of the
Hundred Years War, the Attacotti, Ilipa 206 BC, al-Babayn 1167 AD, running a
wargames campaign, Egyptian chariots.
Notable articles on: Saladin’s siege of
Bourzey castle, the Hittite army at Qadesh, Crusader Turcopoles, Communal
Italian city badges.
Conclusion of award-winning series on
Charles the Bold’s armies.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1984
Series on: Magnesia, evolution of the Roman
legion, chariot warfare, English longbows
Notable articles on: the Mitanni, Roman
siege engineering, 4th century BC Greek tactical developments,
Agincourt, Mongol armies, Byzantine iconoclasm.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1987
Series on: the Axumites of Ethiopia,
Society Conference reports, Anglo-Norman warfare, the Church Militant.
Notable articles on: Tamberlaine,
Culturism, refighting Pelagonia 1259.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions
and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1996
Series on: Arrian’s campaign against the
Alans, Sassanian Persia, Roman strategic though and practice, Mursilis (the
Hittite king), the battle of Frigidus, 394 AD, warfare in Feudal Scotland.
Notable articles on: Late Roman infantry,
Numidians in Carthaginian armies, Castillon 1453, Gaugamela.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1997
Series on: warfare in Feudal Scotland
(continued), Sassanian Persia (continued), Mursilis (continued).
Notable articles on: Numidians in DBM, the
Sogdian Rock, the Amarna Letters, solo campaigning, the Catalan Company, the
Jewish revolt, Caledonians.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1998
Series on: Mursilis (continued), Sassanian
Persia (continued).
Notable articles on: the Bayeux Tapestry
finale, Braveheart, Assyrian infantry, Bruttians, Bosworth, Ancient British
wargame armies (“Woad Rage”), Sui Chinese armies, medieval Srivijaya,
al-Qadasiyah 637 AD.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 1999
Series on: painting techniques, Julian’s
campaign in Persia
Notable articles on: Flemish communal
armies, Macedonian military costume, Hasmonean Judea, Stiklestad 1030 AD,
Vegetius, Troy, Hawaiian armies, Worringen 1288 AD, Sir Robert Knolles,
Bithynian armies.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2000
Series on: Hittites, Thracians, Wars of the
Roses.
Notable articles on: Arthur’s battles,
morphing Dark Age armies, Scipio Africanus, solo campaigning, Bosworth, Vedic
Indian armies, Kingdom of Lan Xang.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2001
Series on: Wars of the Diadochi, Vegetius,
the Songhai Empire
Notable articles on: medieval Malaya,
Hittites, Samurai, Mayan warfare, Harlaw 1411 AD, Versinikia 813 AD, Japanese
castles, medieval Irish armies.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2002
Series on: The Songhai Empire (continued),
the evolution of Hellenistic infantry, the New Chronology, the Roman legion.
Notable articles on: Wargaming with Gauls,
Hellenistic military dress, Boudicca’s revolt, Mapuche armies, Picts, wargaming
in India, the kingdom of Benin, Sasanian armies.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2003
Series on: The Roman legion (continued),
Alexander’s cavalry, the New Chronology (continued), Lydian armies.
Notable articles on: Vikings in Scotland,
Chanca/Inca wars, Picts, King Fulk of Jerusalem, late Carolingian France,
Ghulams, Maccabean armies, medieval Thai armies, Callinicum 531 AD, Nanzhao
armies, Sasanian armies, Cynoscephalae refights.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2004
Series on: Lydian armies (continued),
Sasanian armies (continued), Ancient Korea.
Notable articles on: The Notitia
Dignitatum, naval rules, Paraetacene 317 BC, Gabiene 316 BC, Barnet refights,
early Parthian armies, Tarantine cavalry, Battle Day reports (Gaugamela).
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2005
Series on: Angevin armies (start),
elephants, Hydaspes, medieval south-east Asia, Janos Hunyadi (start).
Notable articles on: Byzantines v Slavs,
Tigranocerta 69 BC, Hapsburg-Burgundian armies, Edington refights, Bannockburn,
Zama, medieval Frisian armies, Battle Day reports (the Sambre), ancient Elam,
medieval cogs.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2006
Series on: Angevin armies (continued),
Janos Hunyadi (continued), medieval south-east Asia.
Notable articles on: medieval Ghana,
ancient sea power, Picts, Hellenistic battle-standards, Constantine the Great,
Rajputs, medieval Kongo, Battle Day reports (Dorylaeum).
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2007
Series on: Pre-Samurai Japanese.
Notable articles on: early medieval
Ireland, Cnidinium (Sparta v Persia), ancient logistics, Crusader warfare, 13th
century Song Chinese armies, the Zanj revolt, Dyrham 577 AD, the Bahmani (India)
Sultanate, Battle Day reports (Dorylaeum and Cynoscephalae).
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2008
Series on: Bronze Age Mesopotamia,
Macedonian military culture, Sasanian armies.
Notable articles on: longbows, trireme
reconstruction, Battle Day reports (Cynoscephalae and Poitiers), Spartan
expeditionary forces, the ancient Macedonians.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2009
Series on: Bronze Age Mesopotamia
(continued), medieval Irish warfare, Constantius II, Sasanian armies
(continued),
Notable articles on: Zama, ancient
logistics, the Granicus, the Lombards, Battle Day reports (Callinicum),
Magnesia, Cannae, Pydna, Teutoberger Wald, Heraclea, ancient Chinese expansion.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
Highlights
of the Year 2010
Series on: Bronze Age Mesopotamia
(continued).
Notable articles on: Ming China, the
Etruscan League, Hannibal’s veterans, Marcus Aurelius, Issus, Sassanid/Roman
wars, Battle Day reports (Zama), Byzantines in 12th century Italy,
Alfred Duggan, Chalons 451 AD,.
Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions,
reviews and many more historical articles.
