Quiet figures in Tudor history often cause the most trouble, usually because they slip through the noise...
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.
Richard III remains one of the most argued over monarchs in English history. His image has travelled...
There are few episodes from the ancient world that carry the dramatic weight of Troy’s fall. Even...
Few names from Birmingham’s thriving eighteenth-century metalworking scene still draw the interest of collectors and military historians,...
The Caudine Forks tends to catch the eye not for a sweeping clash of arms, but for...
The Aztec world did not produce quiet administrators. It produced rulers who steered a fast growing empire...
I have spent years wandering through museum reconstructions and leafing through charters full of scattered clues about...
Early Life and Elusive Origins Anne Boleyn’s beginnings sit in that awkward space where the sources refuse...
Few soldiers have enjoyed such an enduring mystique as the English longbowman. Part peasant, part professional, part...
There comes a moment in every historian’s life when someone asks the unforgiving question. Which sword was...