There are few mounted soldiers in late medieval Europe who inspired as much admiration, frustration and sheer...
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.
Historians sometimes try to sound detached about Mohács, as if the calamity could be tidied into a...
Edward VI is one of those monarchs who feels a bit like a footnote until you look...
Piracy in the Caribbean was never a single era or a neat collection of names. It was...
The Second Battle of St Albans, fought on 17 February 1461, has always struck me as one...
The Landsknechts have always felt like the rowdiest footnote in early modern Europe. They marched across the...
The Battle of Vitoria in June 1813 often gets reduced to a neat tale of Wellington outmanoeuvring...
Honorius is one of those rulers who tends to shuffle in the background of late Roman history,...
Across the long sweep of human history, a few ruling families managed to shape their age with...
There are few subjects I return to as often as medieval castles. Some scholars prefer manuscripts or...
