A Historian’s Look at Legend, Politics and Steel Excalibur has always sat at an odd crossroads. Half...
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.
Watching The Name of the Rose today feels a bit like wandering into a medieval library after...
Infantry in the Napoleonic Wars fought in a landscape of smoke, thunder, and unrelenting drill. Victory depended...
A moment where dynastic ambition met muddy reality on the Yorkshire marshes. The Battle of Hatfield Chase...
There are figures in Greek history who attract theatrical retellings, and then there is Epaminondas, a man...
Raymond IV of Toulouse, also known as Raymond of Saint-Gilles, was one of the most fascinating figures...
Aethelbert (Æthelberht) of Kent stands as one of the most influential figures of early Anglo-Saxon England. Ruling...
If medieval infantry won wars, cavalry defined how they were fought. From thunderous knightly charges to nimble...
The story of medieval warfare isn’t complete without the men who stood their ground on foot. Infantry...
Few Anglo-Saxon kings have had a better press agent than Alfred the Great. He’s remembered as a...