When discussing Henry VIII’s wives, the historian quickly discovers that Tudor England was never short of opinions....
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 Muye, fought around 1046 BC, sits at that comfortable crossroads between legend and history...
Jean de Dieu Soult is one of those figures who strides through Napoleonic history with a certainty...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla occupies a curious place in Roman memory. He was ruthless enough to chill the...
A historian can spend a lifetime trying to convince students that a mountainous battlefield is not just...
By the middle of the first century BC, Rome was tired of being embarrassed in the East....
The Enlightenment is often portrayed as a clean, candle-lit age of reason, where powdered wigs nodded wisely...
Few figures in Tudor history inspire as much stubborn admiration as Catherine of Aragon. She was a...
The Battle of Stiklestad in July 1030 sits at an awkward crossroads in Scandinavian history. It was...
The Battle of Sphacteria in 425 BC sits at a curious crossroads in the Peloponnesian War. It...