The Battle of Pelusium arrives with the hard edged efficiency of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. It is...
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.
Tytila of East Anglia sits in that uneasy space between history and memory where early Anglo Saxon...
Oldest, newest, biggest, smallest, toughest, strangest Medieval castles were never static monuments. They were living structures that...
The Battle of Sphacteria in 425 BC sits strangely in the Peloponnesian War in the best possible...
Heraclius came to power in a moment when the Roman world looked genuinely finished. Provinces were gone,...
England’s swordsmiths rarely get the romance afforded to Toledo or Solingen, yet their work armed officers, cavalrymen,...
Atalanta stands slightly apart from the usual parade of Greek heroes. She is not a king, not...
The Battle of Breitenfeld stands as one of those rare engagements where a single afternoon reshapes an...
The Battle of Meretun in 871 sits in that uncomfortable middle ground of early English history where...
Maximinus Thrax remains one of the Roman Empire’s most uncomfortable emperors, and not just because ancient writers...