Few Roman emperors generate as much heat and as little calm reflection as Elagabalus. His reign was...
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 al Buḥayra, fought in 1132 outside the walls of Damascus, was one of those...
Odysseus is a king, a veteran, a liar, a survivor, and at times a menace. When ancient...
The Sumerian gods sit at the root of recorded religion. Long before scripture hardened into canon, the...
The Battle of Corunna was fought on the Galician coast during the Peninsular War, it was not...
Few medieval kings leave such a conflicted record. Louis IX was both an exacting ruler and a...
The medieval Islamic world did not stumble into innovation by accident. It cultivated it. Between roughly the...
The Battle of Memphis sits in that uncomfortable space between recorded history and informed reconstruction. No battlefield...
The Prussian grenadier occupies a peculiar place in military history. Part elite infantryman, part theatre of intimidation,...
The Romans were collectors by instinct, and that extended to their gods. What began as a cluster...