The macuahuitl has a habit of being called an Aztec sword, which is useful shorthand but a...
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 Viking wars in Europe were not one neat conflict with a clear beginning, middle and end....
Trần Hưng Đạo is one of those rare medieval figures whose reputation does not shrink under scrutiny....
The Vikings did not just raid, burn and disappear into the mist like badly behaved ghosts with...
Edinburgh Castle is one of those rare places that looks exactly as important as it is. Perched...
A closer look at the most talked-about queen of Tudor England Anne Boleyn remains one of the...
The Wars of the Roses were not one long, tidy war with neat edges and clear moral...
Few cavalry formations have gathered quite so much myth around them as the Polish Winged Hussars. That...
Harthacnut is one of those kings who sits awkwardly in the margins of English history. He ruled...
The Hussite Wars remain one of the most unusual conflicts of the late Middle Ages. They were...