The Battle of Amphipolis in 422 BCE was decided by a badly handled withdrawal and a commander...
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 Crusades attract confident opinions, usually delivered rather more neatly than the medieval evidence allows. Knights seeking...
Muramasa is remembered as the swordsmith whose blades brought disaster to the Tokugawa family. His swords supposedly...
Christopher Condent achieved something rather unusual for a pirate captain: he survived long enough to retire. His...
There is a particular pleasure in watching someone explain medieval campaigning while quietly struggling to keep their...
Andrea Ferrara was a real Italian swordsmith whose name acquired a remarkable second life in Scotland. It...
The Siege of Antioch brought the First Crusade close to destruction. Between October 1097 and June 1098,...
greatest possession thrown away. You can recognise these scenes without having read a page of medieval literature....
On 1 February 1814, Napoleon’s army fought a much larger Coalition force around La Rothière in Champagne....
A Celtic warband could be a noble’s armed following, a body of hired fighters or one contingent...