Khalid ibn al-Walid is one of those commanders whose reputation has become so enormous that separating the...
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.
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...
Philip II of France inherited a kingdom in which the king of France was, rather awkwardly, less...
The capture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 was the defining military achievement of the First Crusade...
The Skoutatoi were the shield-bearing heavy infantry of the medieval Byzantine, or Eastern Roman, army. For several...
Jason led perhaps the most famous expedition before the Trojan War, commanded a crew containing some of...
Japan’s sōhei, usually translated as warrior monks, tend to be presented in popular culture as shaven-headed Buddhist...
Theseus is the man who killed the Minotaur, escaped the Labyrinth and became Athens’ great heroic king....
Maurice de Saxe was one of those commanders who seems almost designed to annoy tidy historians. He...