Five Priceless Blades That Sit Beyond Money There is something magnetic about a sword that survives long...
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.
A turning point in the Wars of the Roses, and one of those clashes that feels strangely...
Oswald is one of those early medieval figures who feels half flesh, half legend. The records come...
Cú Chulainn sits at that crossroads where Iron Age memory, medieval storytelling and raw imagination meet. When...
Red Cliffs sits at the heart of Chinese historical memory. It is the moment when Cao Cao’s...
Skanderbeg stands as one of those rare figures who can be described without exaggeration. His life reads...
A fight on shifting sand is a fine way to test both tempers and tactics. The Battle...
Michel Ney still grips the imagination. His rise from a cooper’s son in Saarlouis to Marshal of...
The Battle of Ciudad Rodrigo was fought between 7 and 20 January 1812 during the Peninsular War....
There is something about an enormous sword that pulls people in. Perhaps it is the promise of...