What’s Next for This Newsletter

Firstly, I have an essay on the battle of Nancy that I'm excited to share with you all this week, stay tuned for that!

For over a year now I’ve written essays on medieval history for an audience that’s grown past 12,000 readers. I want to talk today about what comes next, because the next phase of this project needs a paid tier to exist at all.

I want to start producing armor and weapons reviews and overviews, real hands-on breakdowns of how medieval arms and armor actually worked. How a poleaxe was actually wielded in a judicial duel. What it felt like to move in a full harness of plate. Why certain sword geometries existed for certain jobs and not others. This is the kind of content that takes history off the page, and it’s the natural next step for a project built on making the medieval world feel real instead of abstract.

That kind of content has a real production cost. Reproduction armor and weapons aren’t cheap, and getting access to quality pieces, through purchase, loan, or travel to armorers and collections, takes a dedicated budget. A paid subscription is how that budget gets built. It’s not a donation. It’s the price of admission to content that wouldn’t exist otherwise, and it funds the next stage of what this newsletter does.

Here’s the trade. Paid subscribers get full, uncut versions of every essay, including the future series of essays I wish to write, no partial reads. You’ll get first access to the armor and weapons content the moment it exists, and a direct say in what gets covered first. If a specific weapon or piece of armor has always interested you, say so in the comments. That list becomes the production schedule.

The goal is 100 paid subscribers. That’s the threshold where the armor and weapons series moves from an idea to something I can actually start filming and writing. If you’ve read this newsletter for a while and want to see that content happen, upgrading is how you make it happen.

Thank you for reading, as always.