Marco Polo has been called many things over the centuries: explorer, merchant, storyteller, and sometimes, a liar....
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.
A historian’s reflection on the chaos, courage, and cartridge smoke that defined Sharpe’s world. The Sharpe series...
The Battle of Talavera, fought on 27–28 July 1809, was one of the defining clashes of the...
There are few women in medieval history whose reputations evoke both fear and fascination quite like Jeanne...
History has a habit of lingering. Some places refuse to forget, and nowhere does that feel truer...
The Conquest of Tlaxcala in 1519 was not a straightforward military engagement but a brutal series of...
Baba Yaga is not your average fairytale witch. She is older than most nations, stranger than any...
The Wars of the Roses was not a single conflict but a tangled series of civil wars...
Few figures in medieval legend are as beguiling, contradictory, and persistently misunderstood as Morgan le Fay. Somewhere...
The Battle of Cutanda, fought on 17 June 1120, sits neatly within the long, brutal rhythm of...