1. It was built for control, not brute force The longsword gets a reputation as a heavy...
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 Montgisard sits in that rare category of medieval battles that should not have happened,...
Toledo has a habit of being spoken about in reverent tones, as if its blades emerged fully...
The Siege of San Sebastián in the summer of 1813 sit among the grimmest episodes of the...
The question of whether Spartacus or Gannicus deserves the title of greatest gladiator is one that refuses...
Perseus sitsarrives to us from an interesting corner of Greek myth. He is famous enough to feel...
Kusanagi no Tsurugi Kusanagi no Tsurugi sits above every other Japanese sword because it was never really...
A historian’s ranking of the foot soldiers who built empires Ancient warfare was decided on foot long...
The Battle of Dyrham in 577 sits at one of those early medieval history moments that is...
If I had to choose a single medieval century I would politely refuse to inhabit, the fourteenth...