Walking the ground of history’s great battles

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⚔️ BattlefieldTravels: A Guide to the Site

280+ battlefields explored · Six continents · 2,500 years of warfare · 30+ years of field research

BattlefieldTravels combines first-hand fieldwork and primary sources to examine how battles were fought on real terrain — supported by custom maps, photographs, 3D terrain fly-throughs, and a private collection of period weapons and equipment.

Jump directly to the hub pages, or keep scrolling for an overview of the site’s features.

• ⚔️ Battlefield Studies → Firsthand studies and virtual tours of historic battles and campaigns
• 🎧 Battlefield Travels Podcasts → Historic battle and campaign deep-dives brought to life in audio format
• 📝 Field Notes & ⚡Research Dispatches → Go behind the scenes into field notes, working analysis, primary sources, and unpublished material.
• Methodology → How BattlefieldTravels researches and explores historic battlefields
• 💡 Tactical Innovations in Warfare → How armies solved battlefield problems — from the Greek phalanx to modern combined arms
• 🏞 Micro-Terrain & Battlefield Decision-Making→ How terrain shapes combat decisions
• 🏛️ Weapons & Equipment → my personal collection of weapons and equipment used by soldiers over the past 500 years
• 📚 Reading Room → Curated books, memoirs, and primary sources on campaigns and battles
• 🔎 Research Hub → Explore battles by theme, operating environment, and analytical lens

📝Go Beyond the Published Studies

Behind every battlefield study there is a vast body of research: field notes from the ground, period and contemporary imagery, working maps, primary sources, and evolving interpretations. These notes capture how the terrain was read, what stood out, and how conclusions were formed.

📝Explore all Field Notes (from the battlefield) →
⚡Explore Research Dispatches (behind the analysis) →

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💡 Tactical Innovations in Warfare

This section is an overview of the tactical innovations hub. Full access is on the Tactical Innovations in Warfare page.

Throughout history, armies have adapted, improvised, and innovated in response to perceived threats, technological change, and terrain challenges. From the disciplined formations of the ancient world to the shock tactics of the Napoleonic era, from infiltration on the Western Front to air mobility in Vietnam and drone warfare in Ukraine, battlefield success has often depended on the ability to think differently.

🏛️ Weapons, Uniforms, and Equipment

This section is an overview of the museum. Full access is on the Weapons & Equipment page.

As part of my long-standing passion for military history, I have assembled a substantial private military collection. The Weapons & Equipment section draws directly on this collection, presenting genuine historical items that I have examined and handled firsthand, rather than images sourced second-hand or reproduced from the internet.

Organised by era and conflict, these pages include examples of uniforms, headgear, weapons, equipment, accoutrements, and original documents associated with warfare over the past five centuries, placing the historic items alongside the battles in which they were used.

📘Reading Room

This section is a brief introduction to the Reading Room. The full Reading Room, organised by era and conflict, is on the Reading Room page.

The Reading Room brings together the foundational theories, primary sources, and analytical works that have informed my battlefield research over decades. It is drawn from my personal military history library of more than a thousand volumes and decades of research. It reflects the works I rely on most heavily when analysing campaigns, battles, and command decisions. I have read every book listed here and own the vast majority of them.

BattlefieldTravels Methodology

This section outlines the methods used across the site. A fuller explanation is available on the Methodology page.

Each battlefield study is grounded in the systematic analysis of primary sources, terrain, tactics, doctrine, and weapons, informed by firsthand exploration of historic battlefields. This approach reconstructs battles as they unfolded in time and space, linking decisions, movement, and terrain to outcomes. These methods reflect decades of battlefield exploration and research.

🔍 Research Hub

This section is an overview. The full research capability is at the Research Hub.n

The BattlefieldTravels Research Hub allows researchers to explore more than 250 battles and campaigns across six continents, covering 2,500 years of conflict. The hub enables thematic exploration — by army, conflict, operational method, environment, or commander — revealing patterns of warfare that recur across regions, technologies, and eras. Whether you are interested in sieges and raids, British encounter battles, Prussian oblique-order manoeuvres, or Viet Minh jungle ambushes, the Research Hub connects you directly to the relevant evidence-driven studies.

🔗 Explore the Research Hub