The triarii were the veteran heavy infantry of Rome’s manipular legion. Positioned behind the hastati and principes,...
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.
In the summer of 1939, as Europe prepared for war, an archaeological excavation in a Suffolk field...
On a spring day in 1351, two groups of selected warriors met on a patch of heathland...
Napoleonic rocket troops occupied a place between artillerymen, cavalrymen and experimental technicians. Their Congreve rockets could cross...
Buying an antique sword without first buying a few good books is an impressively expensive way to...
Tacitus understood that Rome’s most dangerous battles were not always fought with swords. They were fought in...
The Arab camel rider is one of the most recognisable figures in popular depictions of early Islamic...
The Ulm Campaign of September and October 1805 is one of those military operations that looks almost...
The Battle of Preston, fought on 17 August 1648, was less a tidy clash between two neatly...
Harald Fairhair is traditionally remembered as the first king to unite Norway, he is credited with defeating...