There are elite units that live on mainly through legend, and then there are the Varangian Guards...
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 Trafalgar is one of those moments where history feels strangely close, almost loud in...
Horatio Nelson’s story still grips anyone who cares about how Britain shaped its naval identity. His triumphs...
The Battle of Sherston sits in that interesting space where firm evidence is thin on the ground,...
Sayyida al-Hurra is one of those figures who slipped through the net of popular history yet left...
Arthur Wellesley has been pulled apart and put back together by generations of biographers. Some treat him...
I have spent enough time with Homer and the later cycles to feel both admiration and a...
7 Facts And 7 Myths About Henry VIII Henry VIII attracts more rumours than almost any figure...
The Battle of Lechaeum was one of those sharp shocks in Greek warfare when an old power...
A Historian’s Guide To A Pantheon That Refuses To Sit Still Celtic religion does not hand you...