Possibly the greatest I've ever involved myself in, nearly a decade in the making.
It all started when I first arrived back in Canada for a Master's degree, a well-funded one.. and it was the first time I'd not only not been completely broke as a student, but had more disposable income than...
The first goal of course is to try to find period appropriate examples of the soldiers on the cover, but then also going through some of my materials - and photographs in his book - it's clear H.G. Wells had a whole mix of these soldiers he used. So eventually it would be nice to have a few...
Indeed those do appear to be the correct cavalry! Although I note one of them (on the cover) has a rectangle base rearing up. Would this place them a bit later than 1899 due to when Britain started using rectangle bases? Or is this some fanciful imagination of the artist?
And as for wargames...
Hi all,
Long time listener, first time caller.
After close to a decade, I'm just rounding the bend on completing a collection of things surrounding HG Wells' 1913 publication of Little Wars. A recent chance document find a week or two, which nearly completes the nigh-impossible document...
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