The Battle of Sisak, fought on 22 June 1593, stands as one of those obscure yet decisive...
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.
Few emperors in Roman history inspire such a mixture of admiration and melancholy as Julian, known to...
Queen Anne’s Revenge was for a time a vehicle of terror on the high seas. She was...
Edward the Elder is often overshadowed by his more famous father, Alfred the Great, and by the...
Fought in the fog and smoke of Saxony, where kings died and Europe trembled. The Battle of...
If there’s one thing that keeps the legends of piracy alive, it isn’t just the rum, the...
Few names in naval history strike the same chord as Hayreddin Barbarossa. To Christians of the 16th...
Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans (1992) has never really left the cultural bloodstream. Based on...
1. The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) Countries Involved:Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, France, Spain, Denmark, and German principalities....
Few figures in world history carry as much baggage as Genghis Khan. For some, he is the...