The Crusades remain one of the most argued-over chapters in medieval history. They have been called acts...
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.
Constantine II, King of Alba, ruled for an extraordinary forty-three years between 900 and 943. In a...
The Battle of Fulford is often treated like the forgotten opening act of 1066. Everyone remembers Stamford...
The Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937, is one of those moments in British history that feels...
To a medieval infantryman standing in a shield wall, Byzantine Kataphraktoi must have looked less like men...
A historian’s look at steel, symbolism, and the men who carried them The American Civil War is...
There are figures in history who arrive with a quiet certainty and then leave with a continent...
The Vikings had a talent for turning up unexpectedly, causing chaos, winning fortunes and occasionally leaving an...
The Short Answer Yes, Viking berserkers were probably real, though not quite in the way films, television...
The Siege of Acre in 1291 was the end of nearly two centuries of Crusader rule in...