Initiated in 1990 and awarded for the best historical article in the past year for a “1-1000 AD” topic.
| Year | Winner | Article | Slingshot |
| 2025 | Simon Stevens | The Arab-Byzantine borderlands | 360 |
| 2024 | Bruno Servili | Maldon 991AD as a Card-Assisted Wargame Project | |
| 2023 | Andy Offen | Teutoburger Wald – Evening the Odds | |
| 2020 | Jim Webster | Characene | |
| 2019 | Nicholas Spratt | The Campaigns of Kwanggaeto the Great | |
| 2018 | Nicholas Spratt | The Sack of Chang’an | 319,320 |
| 2017 | Nicholas Spratt | South-East Asian Warfare | |
| 2016 | Luke Ueda-Sarson | Late Roman Army & the Notitia Dignitatum | |
| 2015 | John Hastings | Aricola’s campaigns in Wales as a mini-campaign | |
| 2013 | Toby Partridge | Account of refighting Chalons using DBMM | |
| 2012 | Robert Heiligers | Iberian series of articles | |
| 2011 | Robert Helligers | The Golden Age of the Franks | |
| 2010 | Simon MacDowell | The Battle of Chalons | 272 |
| 2009 | Stewart Hey | Ambush at Callinicum, 531 AD | |
| 2008 | Duncan Head | Army of the Zanj Revolt | |
| 2007 | Duncan Head | A series of articles on pre-Samurai Japanese | |
| 2006 | Ilkka Syvanne | The Late Roman Art of War | |
| 2005 | Jim Sye | Procopius I: XVIII 32-35 | |
| 2004 | Kark Heinz Ranitszch | Three Kingdoms and an Empire: Ancient Korea | |
| 2003 | Duncan Head | Nanchao Reconsidered | |
| 2002 | Alan Colquhoun | Various articles on Scots and Vikings | |
| 2001 | David Karunanithy | Of Ox-hide Helmets and Three-Ply Armour | |
| 2000 | Paul Burton | The Once and Future Wargame: Fighting with Arthur | |
| 1999 | John Hogan | Death of an Emperor: Julian’s Campaign in Persia AD363 | |
| 1998 | Kark Heinz Ranitszch | The Thalassocracy of Srivijaya | |
| 1997 | Paul Browne | The Battle for Thrace | |
| 1996 | Phil Halewood | Korymbos – The Crowning Glory of Iran | |
| 1995 | Philip Sabin | Maldon AD 991: Read the Poem & Fight the Battle | |
| 1994 | Jim Sye | Review of The Politics of Usurpation | |
| 1993 | Andrew Garbett | The Development of a Sassanid Persian Army | |
| 1992 | Paul Morris | Early Medieval Colour Schemes | |
| 1991 | Chris Kinnear | New World Warfare | |
| 1990 | Neil Hammond | The Huns |