Cyrano de Bergerac is one of those figures who straddles the line between history and legend. A...
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 1 February 1814, in the frozen fields of Champagne, Napoleon Bonaparte fought the Battle of La...
House of the Dragon is not just about dragons and family feuds. The Valyrian steel blades that...
Duelling has always had that peculiar blend of formality and brutality. The premise was simple: two people,...
Alfonso X of Castile and León reigned from 1252 to 1284. He remains one of the most...
The Battle of Lipany in May 1434 was the final act in the Hussite Wars, fought between...
Robin of Sherwood ran from 1984 to 1986 and quickly earned a reputation as one of the...
The Battle of Civitate was fought on 18 June 1053 between the Norman adventurers who had carved...
Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus and member of Sparta’s Agiad dynasty, is remembered as the regent who led...
Commodus (AD 161 to 192) was the son of Marcus Aurelius, the great philosopher-emperor. His father gave...