The Anglo-Saxon centuries were shaped by ambition, belief, and a quite unnecessary number of axes.From the early...
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.
Penda of Mercia remains one of the most fascinating and fiercely independent rulers of early Anglo-Saxon England....
An unflinching look at ritual, religion, and the realities of empire. Few subjects about the Aztec Empire...
The Battle of Wassy was less a battle than a massacre, but it marked the bloody ignition...
Few figures of the fifteenth century embodied the collision of East and West quite like John Hunyadi....
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is so much more than just a strategy and combat sandbox. Beneath...
When Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus hit cinemas in 1960, it was sold as a sword-and-sandal epic with Kirk...
Benjamin Hornigold is one of those figures who straddles the blurry line between pirate legend and colonial...
The Tepanec War was the turning point that forged the foundation of the Aztec Triple Alliance and...
Few rulers in history have undergone a transformation as profound as Ashoka, the Mauryan emperor who went...