Empress Matilda came closer to ruling medieval England than any woman before her. Named as heir by...
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.
On the morning of 22 August 1138, two very different armies faced one another on open ground...
Roman velites were young, lightly equipped infantrymen who screened the Republican legion, harassed enemy formations and dealt...
Spartacus has been remade many times. To the Romans, he was a dangerous rebel who humiliated their...
On a dusty plain in Thessaly in 48 BCE, two Roman armies met to decide who would...
On 7 September 1812, roughly a quarter of a million soldiers met near the village of Borodino,...
Napoleon Bonaparte rose from provincial Corsican obscurity to command armies, overthrow governments and rule an empire stretching...
The hastati occupied one of the least comfortable positions in the Roman Republic. They stood in the...
Blackbeard did not need decades to become immortal. His documented career as an independent pirate captain lasted...
The First Battle of St Albans was fought on 22 May 1455 between supporters of King Henry...