Ancient Egypt attracts certainty and doubt in equal measure. Names echo across three millennia, yet much of...
Jayne Ellis
Jayne Ellis is a History graduate from the University of York with a deep fascination for ancient societies and the human experience that shaped them. Her writing reflects a keen eye for cultural nuance and a traveller’s instinct for perspective, often weaving lived experience with historical insight. Serious in her research yet unafraid to voice an opinion, Jayne approaches the past with curiosity, rigour, and the occasional sharp edge, because history, after all, was never neutral.
The Battle of Niså sits in that awkward space between saga legend and hard military reality. It...
Alfonso III of Asturias reigned from 866 to 910, a long and consequential stretch in a violent...
The Roman emperors form one of history’s longest and most uneven chains of power. Some were careful...
Oswiu stands as one of the most consequential rulers of early medieval Britain, though he rarely receives...
The Lines of Torres Vedras remain one of the most effective defensive systems ever built in Europe....
The Battle of Buhen was fought during the reign of Senusret III, whose southern campaigns were not...
Michel le Basque exists in a corner of pirate history where the evidence is thin, the rumours...
After years of reading chronicles, ballads, court records, and later reinventions, I have come to think of...
The Battle of Oporto, fought on 12 May 1809, sits among the sharpest reversals of fortune in...