Initiated in 1980 and awarded for the best historical article in the past year for an ‘after 1000 AD’ topic.
| Year | Winner | Article | Slingshot |
| 2025 | Mick Hession | The Jagged Black Banner: The Dublin Militia | 361 |
| 2024 | Anthony Clipsom | The Knight, the Horse and the Crane | 355 |
| 2023 | Anthony Clipsom | Raining Arrows – The Debate about the Medieval Arrow Storm | 350 |
| 2020 | Paul Stein | Army Strengths in 13th Century Prussia | 334 |
| 2019 | Mick Hession | Gerald the Great on Battleaxe Hill | 328 |
| 2018 | Mick Hession | Kinging it in Ulster | 318, 319 |
| 2017 | Nick Harbud | Logistics of Arsuf | 309-310 |
| 2015 | Nick Harbud | Behind the Curve | 298 |
| 2014 | Mick Hession | Series on the Normans in Ireland | 299 |
| 2013 | Martin Blanchard | Anglo-Norman Army: 1066-1181 | 292 |
| 2012 | Mick Hession | The Battle of Clontarf | 284 |
| 2011 | Nick Harbud | A Ballistic Comparison of Trebuchet & Gunpowder Artillery | |
| 2010 | Anthony Clipsom | Some Thouths on 14th Century Scottish Armies | |
| 2009 | Mick Hession | Cogadh Gaedhil, Medieval Irish Warfare 600-1500 AD | |
| 2008 | John Walsh | The Bahmani Sultanate | |
| 2006 | Adrian Clarke | The Bhatti Rajputs of Jaisalmer | |
| 2005 | John Walsh | Medieval Indonesia | |
| 2004 | Gareth Griffiths | Medieval Persian Armies | |
| 2003 | Charles Ablett | Fighting with Almughavars | |
| 2002 | Richard Young | The Kingdom of Benin | |
| 2001 | Alan Todd | The Songhai Empire | |
| 2000 | Andrew Bird | Land of a Thousand Elephants: The Founding of the Kingdom of Lan Xing | |
| 1999 | Carl de Roo | Communal Armies in the County of Flanders | |
| 1998 | Jorge de Freitas | Fresh Paint to your Medieval Portugese Army | |
| 1997 | Paul Burton | The Catalan Adventure | |
| 1996 | Paul Walsh | Warfare in Feudal Scotland 1100 – 1300 | |
| 1995 | Peter Hall | Siege Rules for DBM | |
| 1994 | Phil Steele | Living with an Army List | |
| 1993 | Michael Anastasiadis | The Scientific Approach to Warfare | |
| 1992 | Jill Szusikiewicz | Various reviews of novels | |
| 1991 | Andy Gittins | Winter of Discontent | |
| 1990 | William Hamblin & David Blanchard | The Fatamid Army | |
| 1989 | Paul Walsh | The Appearance of the Medieval Welsh | |
| 1988 | Terry Griner | King Amalric’s Invasion of Egypt | |
| 1987 | Simon MacDowall | Deus le Volt! Wargaming the First Crusade | |
| 1986 | David Sweet | Medieval Colonial Wars – The Canary Islands | |
| 1985 | Howard Whitehouse | The Long Serpent: Warfare at Sea in the Old Northern World | |
| 1984 | Matthew Bennett | The French Battle Plan for Agincourt | |
| 1983 | Bill Hamblin | The battle of Al Babayn 18th March 1167 | |
| 1982 | Ian Sumner | Articles on French and Crusader heraldry | |
| 1981 | John Feilla | Bouvines | |
| 1980 | George Andersen | Articles on Robert the Bruce |