Serena Jones spent many years as an English Civil War reenactor before earning a BA Honours in History as a mature student, and then starting her own publishing company to make primary 17th century texts available for modern researchers. Serena is the author of No Armour But Courage: Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615–1648, and edited the previous two volumes of the Helion conference papers: A New Way of Fighting: Professionalism in the English Civil War, and Home and Away: The British Experience of War 1618-1721. She is currently transcribing and annotating the Civil War newsbooks, and preparing a book on the Battle of Cheriton.
