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Career

Keith Poulter taught political science. In 1977 he founded the wargame company UKW, UK Wargamer, which by summer 1978 was better known as World Wide Wargames ( 3W). In 1980, a commentator said the creation of the company and its magazine '' The Wargamer'' was "the most important development in British wargaming for years", and noted the quality of games produced in the magazine. Following a period of declining subscriptions for the magazine ''

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'', 3W acquired the publication from #112 (June 1987) to #139 (December 1990). Keith Poulter was the editor from issues #112 to #119,

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from #120 to #129,

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from #130 to #139. Although circulation began to increase again, subscriptions never recovered fully, and most sales were through game stores and not subscriptions, which meant third-party retailers cut into profits. Poulter got out of the business, and in 1991 ''Strategy & Tactics'' was sold to

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. In 1997, he launched and was the editor of the "leading" and "highly respected" history magazine '' North & South – The Official Magazine of the Civil War Society'' (1997-2013).

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