Historical European Martial Arts, better known as HEMA, is one of those hobbies that quietly pulls people...
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 royal houses can claim a lifespan approaching seven centuries. Fewer still survived Mongol invasions, the rise...
The Battle of Actium, fought on 2 September 31 BCE, was one of history’s defining naval battles....
When people think of the kings who shaped England, names such as Alfred the Great, William the...
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, sometimes called the Battle of Châlons or the Battle of the...
Henry Tudor should never have become king. His claim to the English throne was, if we are...
Among the thousands of treasures recovered from Tutankhamun’s tomb, few objects have generated as much fascination as...
Few places in history were less forgiving than a medieval battlefield. Swords hacked, axes crushed, arrows darkened...
The Battle of Evesham, fought on 4 August 1265, was one of the bloodiest and most consequential...
Few figures from the seventeenth century provoke as much debate as Sir Henry Morgan. To the Spanish,...