{"id":2982,"date":"2026-06-02T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:10:30","slug":"medieval-soldier-research-professor-adrian-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/medieval-soldier-research-professor-adrian-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval soldier research &#8211; Professor Adrian Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2984&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Professor Adrian Bell is Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, a researcher at Henley Business School at the University of Reading and holds his Chair in the History of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0colleagues he has developed a fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medievalsoldier.org\/\">database of medieval soldiers<\/a>. The database is made available free of charge for anyone to use, but donations are always welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>Donations will help to grow the database by adding more historic records that have already been transcribed. 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