Alexander the Great has been called a genius, a god, a butcher, and just about everything in...
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.
Donald McBane’s life reads like a series of tavern tales told after too much ale. Born in...
Cyrano de Bergerac is one of those figures who straddles the line between history and legend. A...
House of the Dragon is not just about dragons and family feuds. The Valyrian steel blades that...
Duelling has always had that peculiar blend of formality and brutality. The premise was simple: two people,...
Alfonso X of Castile and León reigned from 1252 to 1284. He remains one of the most...
Robin of Sherwood ran from 1984 to 1986 and quickly earned a reputation as one of the...
Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus and member of Sparta’s Agiad dynasty, is remembered as the regent who led...
Commodus (AD 161 to 192) was the son of Marcus Aurelius, the great philosopher-emperor. His father gave...
Pirates from the so-called Golden Age (roughly 1650 to 1730) have been endlessly romanticised in books, films...