Halberdiers were among the most formidable infantrymen of the late Middle Ages. Their weapon combined a cutting...
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.
The court of King Baldwin IV was not a hushed chamber gathered around a tragic young monarch....
The Battle of La Forbie was fought near Gaza on 17 October 1244, with some accounts extending...
Pikes and firearms shared European battlefields for nearly two centuries. At first sight, it seems an awkward...
A medieval creature might turn up in a sermon, a story told by the fire, a traveller’s...
Emma of Normandy married two kings who had fought for the same throne. Her sons by each...
In 480 BCE, a Carthaginian army marched on Himera, a Greek city on Sicily’s northern coast. The...
The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered chronicle of the Norman Conquest. At over 70 metres long, this...
The Khmer civilisation centred on Angkor created one of the largest and most sophisticated urban landscapes of...
The Battle of Chalgrove Field was a sharp Royalist cavalry victory fought near Oxford on 18 June...