Anyone hoping for a tidy Roman pantheon arranged like a modern organisational chart is in for disappointment....
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.
Mount Badon sits in that curious space where history becomes just blurry enough for legend to slip...
The world of Aztec warfare has long fascinated me. It blends strict military ranks, religious fervour and...
A historian spends long enough in Roman religion and eventually Mithras wanders into view, usually through a...
If you spend long enough in the company of medieval texts, you start to feel as if...
As moments in the early sixteenth century go, the Conquest of Huexotzinco sits in a curious space....
Human history has a habit of producing rulers who stride into the record with a certain theatrical...
A historian cannot approach Marengo without a faint wince. It is one of those engagements where a...
Richard II of Normandy, sometimes called Richard the Good, ruled from the final years of the tenth...
The Battle of St Quentin still feels like one of those moments where the French crown trusted...