The Enlightenment was not a single moment or manifesto but a movement of ideas that transformed Europe...
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.
A seasoned soldier turned king and emperor, whose life bridged the age of the Crusades and the...
The fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521 marked the end of the Aztec Empire and the dawn of...
The Iceni are one of the most famous tribes of Iron Age Britain, remembered largely because of...
Modern Historical European Martial Arts, or HEMA, is one of those rare pursuits where grown adults get...
The Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD marked one of antiquity’s most brutal and consequential showdowns. What...
A study of the first Carolingian king and the man who built the bridge between the Merovingian...
Few civilisations evoke such fascination and misunderstanding as the Aztec Empire. Rising from the marshy valley of...
When Rome first aired on HBO in 2005, it felt like the dawn of a new era...
The Battle of Amphipolis, fought in 422 BC, stands as one of the most dramatic and decisive...