Few figures in English history have commanded as much fascination as Elizabeth I. The last Tudor monarch...
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.
Few figures in history are as endlessly debated as Napoleon Bonaparte. Depending on who you ask, he...
Lucius Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome from 193 to 211 AD, was a man of immense will...
Few sieges in the Napoleonic Wars match the sheer brutality of Badajoz. It was not a battle...
For all their philosophy and politics, the ancient Greeks were never far from a touch of sorcery....
Ferdinand Magellan was a man both admired and doomed by his own conviction. A Portuguese navigator in...
The Battle of the Medway was the first major engagement of the Roman invasion of Britain under...
The Battle of Arsuf was fought on 7 September 1191 between Richard I of England and Saladin...
Cadwallon ap Cadfan is one of those early medieval rulers who stride into history trailing equal parts...
The Tudor dynasty remains one of the most recognisable royal houses in European history. Born in blood...