Few figures from the violent world of the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands have travelled as far from history into...
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 the River Idle, fought around 616 AD, is one of those early medieval battles...
The Battle of Okehazama, fought in June 1560, is one of those rare moments where history seems...
Few rulers from early Anglo-Saxon England carry as much intrigue as King Raedwald (Old English: Rædwald) of...
Gjergj Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, remains one of the most remarkable military figures of the 15th...
Swords occupy a strange place in popular imagination. They are real weapons with centuries of craftsmanship behind...
The Battle of Shrewsbury, fought on 21 July 1403, was one of the most brutal clashes of...
Few medieval English knights carried a reputation quite like Sir Henry Percy, better remembered by the nickname...
Feudal Japan was not an endless sequence of honourable duels beneath falling cherry blossoms, despite what cinema...
Leif Erikson remains one of the most fascinating figures of the Viking Age, partly because the line...