Initiated in 1990 and awarded for the best historical article in the past year for a "1-1000 AD" topic.

Year

Winner

Article

Slingshot

2018 Nicholas Spratt The Sack of Chang'an 319,320
2017 Nicholas Spratt South-East Asian Warfare  
2016 Luke Ueda-Sarson Notitia Dignitatum  
2015 John Hastings Aricola's campaigns in Wales as a mini-campaign  
2014      
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