Welcome to our academic archive! Here you can find a list of academic book chapters and journal articles exploring the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. We also include academic materials on the subject of Games Workshop (the business) and its history. To suggest items for this list, please email Dr Mike Ryder.
Journal articles
- Carter, M., Gibbs, M., & Harrop, M. (2014) Drafting an Army: The Playful Pastime of Warhammer 40,000, Games and Culture, 9(2), 122–147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412013513349 .
- Ryder, M. (2021). Conscripts from birth: War and soldiery in the grim darkness of the far future. Fantastika Journal, 5(1), 47–60.
Book chapters
- Reichart, André. (2019) ‘Das Adeptus Sororitas. Die Heilige Jungfrau in der dystopischen Welt von ‚Warhammer 40.000‘’, in Technik und Gender. Technikzukünfte als geschlechtlich codierte Ordnungen in Literatur und Film, ed. Marie-Hélène Adam, Katrin Schneider-Özbek, and Andie Rothenhäusler (Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing), 223–42, https://doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000051991.
- Sturrock, I., & Wallis, J. (2016) Total Global Domination: Games Workshop and Warhammer 40,000. In: P. Harrigan & M. G. Kirschenbaum (eds.) Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargames. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10329.003.0062