Battle records?

Since I am quite new to the game, so do one of course have some questions. One of them being, are there any battle records available within the game/campaign (i.e. scroll) which one can access and view the various battles one have fought during the campaign?

I have looked around in various places, but have not been able to find anything of that nature. Nor have I been able to find any records/scroll over when different factions and/or provinces have been captured.

Is it just me that aren´t searching in the right places, or does records like these not exist and one are forced to keep the timeline of expansion and battles in ones own memory?

I don't know of anything apart from the little crossed swords on the strategic map. Some little extras would have been cool though...

- like battle replays for campaign battles, that should have been a no-brainer
- a big chronology recording the dates of the big events
- biographies of your characters (that you can access even after they're dead!) detailing when they won their battles or governed towns or became monster-raving-loonies, a bit of auto-text thrown in and you've got your own personalised copy of Suetonius!