The Battle of Hafrsfjord is remembered as the victory through which Harald Fairhair broke a coalition of...
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.
Hugh Capet is one of those rulers whose reputation becomes stranger the closer you look at it....
Historical European Martial Arts has a rather unusual relationship with books. In most combat sports, reading is...
The Napoleonic Wars produced battles on a scale Europe had rarely experienced. Armies containing tens or even...
Olaf Haraldsson is one of those historical figures who becomes more difficult to understand the more you...
The history of the sword is usually told through warriors, battles and famous weapons. The forge tends...
The Viking establishment of a permanent base at Dublin in 841 was one of the decisive moments...
Khalid ibn al-Walid is one of those commanders whose reputation has become so enormous that separating the...
On 13 July 1643, on open downland north of Devizes in Wiltshire, one of the more extraordinary...
The ghulams, more accurately ghilmān in the Arabic plural, were professional military retainers who became one of...