Lucius Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome from 193 to 211 AD, was a man of immense will...
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 sieges in the Napoleonic Wars match the sheer brutality of Badajoz. It was not a battle...
For all their philosophy and politics, the ancient Greeks were never far from a touch of sorcery....
Ferdinand Magellan was a man both admired and doomed by his own conviction. A Portuguese navigator in...
The Battle of the Medway was the first major engagement of the Roman invasion of Britain under...
The Battle of Arsuf was fought on 7 September 1191 between Richard I of England and Saladin...
Cadwallon ap Cadfan is one of those early medieval rulers who stride into history trailing equal parts...
The Tudor dynasty remains one of the most recognisable royal houses in European history. Born in blood...
The Battle of Assandun, fought in October 1016, was one of the final and most consequential clashes...
Thomas Cavendish was the kind of man who wanted to make history but ended up being swallowed...