Writer’s note, this is one of those topics that makes a historian mutter into a cup 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 Janissaries sit in a strange corner of military history. They were feared, admired, occasionally loathed and...
Salamanca is one of those battles that makes you glad Wellington kept meticulous notes. A hot Castilian...
Wuffa sits in that early medieval fog where the line between history and memory blurs a little....
The siege and battle of Colchester in 1648 marked a moment when the already frayed nerves of...
Mary I of England still sits in one of those uncomfortable corners of Tudor history where reputation,...
Vikings Valhalla loves a larger than life warrior. It never pretended to be a quiet meditation on...
I have always found Cambyses II a figure wrapped in both authority and unease. His reign sits...
The Battle of Mansurah sits at a strange crossroads in Crusader history. It feels both dramatic and...
The battleof Edessa has a habit of being overshadowed by more glamorous clashes, yet it remains one...