There is something rather satisfying about writing on the Hungarian Hussars. They were never the most heavily...
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.
Arthur’s Round Table did not begin as the enormous roster modern authors love to parade. Early texts...
History rarely gives young kings an easy ride. Edmund I inherited a kingdom still reforming itself after...
Szigetvár sits in that uneasy corner of Central Europe where the Habsburgs and Ottomans continually tried to...
A Historian’s Guide to the Old Midwinter Yule has the sort of reputation that makes a historian...
The Tokugawa Shogunate always feels like one of those periods where restraint shaped an entire civilisation. When...
Some figures slip into history with a flourish of steel. Alexandre Exquemelin wandered in through the back...
Anyone hoping for a tidy Roman pantheon arranged like a modern organisational chart is in for disappointment....
Mount Badon sits in that curious space where history becomes just blurry enough for legend to slip...
The world of Aztec warfare has long fascinated me. It blends strict military ranks, religious fervour and...