One thing I’ve long been interested in is public engagement, academia can too often be stuck in the mythical ivory towers separate from pop culture arguing over minutia rather than furthering general public knowledge of their specialism. When it comes to gaming and bringing on the next generation of either gaming professionals or gaming- inclined academics engagement with the media that they engage with is important (despite any misgivings this cynical gen X-er may have). One of the most common routes into gaming is through Games Workshop’s monolithic empire. Indeed, some of my earliest games were with Rogue Trader back in 1989…. What lessons can be drawn by the players of these games, consciously or subconsciously, has always been of interest to me much in the same way that historical representation in TV and cinema is. Accordingly, when my friend Grant asked me to feature on his Warhammer themed You Tube channel to talk about real world parallels in Warhammer of course I was going to say yes. The video has gone live this evening- go over and have a watch of it: https://youtu.be/Nu56QyY5aME

This is a less formal approach I took when I spoke in the inaugural Warhammer Conference, which has also been archived on You Tube.

Cheers,

Pete.