Hernán Cortés is one of those figures who refuses to sit quietly in the corner of history....
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.
Elizabeth I tends to loom over the sixteenth century like a figure carved out of light and...
The reputation of the Huscarl still stirs something in me. They come across as the sort of...
Otumba sits in that uncomfortable category of battles that look impossible on paper yet somehow happened anyway....
A decisive clash near the end of the Hundred Years War, Formigny sits in that odd corner...
Writer’s note, this is one of those topics that makes a historian mutter into a cup of...
The Janissaries sit in a strange corner of military history. They were feared, admired, occasionally loathed and...
Salamanca is one of those battles that makes you glad Wellington kept meticulous notes. A hot Castilian...
Wuffa sits in that early medieval fog where the line between history and memory blurs a little....
The siege and battle of Colchester in 1648 marked a moment when the already frayed nerves of...