The Battle of Assandun, fought in October 1016, was one of the final and most consequential clashes...
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.
Thomas Cavendish was the kind of man who wanted to make history but ended up being swallowed...
The Anglo-Saxon centuries were shaped by ambition, belief, and a quite unnecessary number of axes.From the early...
Penda of Mercia remains one of the most fascinating and fiercely independent rulers of early Anglo-Saxon England....
An unflinching look at ritual, religion, and the realities of empire. Few subjects about the Aztec Empire...
The Battle of Wassy was less a battle than a massacre, but it marked the bloody ignition...
Few figures of the fifteenth century embodied the collision of East and West quite like John Hunyadi....
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is so much more than just a strategy and combat sandbox. Beneath...
When Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus hit cinemas in 1960, it was sold as a sword-and-sandal epic with Kirk...
Benjamin Hornigold is one of those figures who straddles the blurry line between pirate legend and colonial...