George Lowther is not one of piracy’s grand myth-makers. He did not retire rich, found a pirate...
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.
The Battle of Toulouse, fought on 10 April 1814, is one of those Napoleonic finales that feels...
A historian’s ranking of the mounted forces that decided ancient wars Ancient cavalry were not always battlefield...
Yagyū Munenori was a man who knew exactly how to cut someone down, then spent the rest...
The Battle of Iconium was fought during the Third Crusade, it was less a neat, ceremonial clash...
The Achaemenid dynasty ruled a realm so vast that even modern logistics would wince. From the Aegean...
The Battle of Yamen closed the book on the Song dynasty with an ending that still feels...
Set an English knight and a French knight side by side in the fourteenth or fifteenth century...
Few commanders loom as large over Late Antiquity as Belisarius. Serving Emperor Justinian I in the sixth...
Louis-Nicolas Davout has the odd distinction of being both feared and respected in equal measure. He was...