The British Historical Games Society was created in 1996 to serve the historical wargaming community. The main activity of the BHGS is in running several national events at which a variety of historical rulesets are all represented under the same roof. We also provide assistance to a number of other events.
Wargames is the depiction of battles from various periods in history using detailed and researched, model armies and is played on a tabletop playing area using realistically modelled terrain. This may be played at home, at clubs and even at organised competitions. We support a variety of different rules and periods from the first biblical battles through to modern warfare.
The main aim of the BHGS is to continue to stage a number of multi-ruleset, multi-scale, multi-theme wargaming competitions and events (not necessarily competitive!) throughout the UK, most notably Britcon, Roll Call, The BHGS Challenge and the BHGS Historical Teams. We believe that getting players from as many different strands of historical gaming as possible into the same room over the same weekend is just "a good thing" for the hobby, so if we can help do that by staging some of the UK's largest and longest-running events we're delighted to be able to do so
The BHGS compiles the UK National Rankings for several periods and publish these here on our web site. These are used to determine annual champions in the major historical competition periods. The current positions and past winners may all be found on the web-site.
The BHGS is registered with the Data Protection Agency and we hold details of our members on a computerised database. If you are not already registered as a BHGS member, which is free, we invite you to do so now by signing up to our web based form. All players who enter one of our events also become members.
We exist to support the UK's historical gaming community as a whole, primarily by bringing as many people as possible together at our events. We are a non-profit organisation, budgeting our events to break even each year. We also maintain a reserve fund at a level sufficient to allow us to fully refund every attendee even in the unlikely scenario in which we were forced to cancel any or all of our events at the last minute, and were unable to secure a refund on our sunk costs.
The British Historical Games Society ("The BHGS") is used as a trading name for the Historical Games Community Interest Company, a company status which better reflects our non-profit nature and function. Our constitution is available on this website.
Wargames is the depiction of battles from various periods in history using detailed and researched, model armies and is played on a tabletop playing area using realistically modelled terrain. This may be played at home, at clubs and even at organised competitions. We support a variety of different rules and periods from the first biblical battles through to modern warfare.
The main aim of the BHGS is to continue to stage a number of multi-ruleset, multi-scale, multi-theme wargaming competitions and events (not necessarily competitive!) throughout the UK, most notably Britcon, Roll Call, The BHGS Challenge and the BHGS Historical Teams. We believe that getting players from as many different strands of historical gaming as possible into the same room over the same weekend is just "a good thing" for the hobby, so if we can help do that by staging some of the UK's largest and longest-running events we're delighted to be able to do so
The BHGS compiles the UK National Rankings for several periods and publish these here on our web site. These are used to determine annual champions in the major historical competition periods. The current positions and past winners may all be found on the web-site.
The BHGS is registered with the Data Protection Agency and we hold details of our members on a computerised database. If you are not already registered as a BHGS member, which is free, we invite you to do so now by signing up to our web based form. All players who enter one of our events also become members.
We exist to support the UK's historical gaming community as a whole, primarily by bringing as many people as possible together at our events. We are a non-profit organisation, budgeting our events to break even each year. We also maintain a reserve fund at a level sufficient to allow us to fully refund every attendee even in the unlikely scenario in which we were forced to cancel any or all of our events at the last minute, and were unable to secure a refund on our sunk costs.
The British Historical Games Society ("The BHGS") is used as a trading name for the Historical Games Community Interest Company, a company status which better reflects our non-profit nature and function. Our constitution is available on this website.