Mike Loades is a British writer,[1][2] television presenter,[3] director,[4] and military historian.
[9][10] Loades appears regularly in television history documentaries as a military historian/historical weapons specialist.
Loades has had several books published on arms and armour topics in addition to one about the history of dogs.
He provided commentary about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in a short documentary for the videogame Total War: Rome 2 in addition to directing other short documentaries for the franchise - The Throwing War and Legionary Kit.
[6][7] For Age of Empires IV, he wrote and directed nineteen short films that were embedded in the game as mini-documentaries titled Hands-On-History [15] Loades has directed on related history in several television drama/documentary specials, including: