Michel le Basque exists in a corner of pirate history where the evidence is thin, the rumours...
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.
After years of reading chronicles, ballads, court records, and later reinventions, I have come to think of...
The Battle of Oporto, fought on 12 May 1809, sits among the sharpest reversals of fortune in...
Few Roman emperors generate as much heat and as little calm reflection as Elagabalus. His reign was...
The Battle of al Buḥayra, fought in 1132 outside the walls of Damascus, was one of those...
Odysseus is a king, a veteran, a liar, a survivor, and at times a menace. When ancient...
The Sumerian gods sit at the root of recorded religion. Long before scripture hardened into canon, the...
The Battle of Corunna was fought on the Galician coast during the Peninsular War, it was not...
Few medieval kings leave such a conflicted record. Louis IX was both an exacting ruler and a...
The medieval Islamic world did not stumble into innovation by accident. It cultivated it. Between roughly the...