The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World are among the most famous cultural markers of antiquity. They...
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.
Alexander the Great has been called a genius, a god, a butcher, and just about everything in...
Donald McBane’s life reads like a series of tavern tales told after too much ale. Born in...
The First Crusade’s siege of Antioch (October 1097 to June 1098) was one of the most gruelling...
Reenactment festivals are where history leaps off the page and into the mud. The best of them...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age is the 2007 sequel to Shekhar Kapur’s earlier film Elizabeth (1998). Where the...
Cyrano de Bergerac is one of those figures who straddles the line between history and legend. A...
On 1 February 1814, in the frozen fields of Champagne, Napoleon Bonaparte fought the Battle of La...
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,...