Cerdic sits at that curious point in early English history where fact, tradition and political storytelling blend...
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.
Few seasons in the medieval calendar carried the same mixture of anticipation, religion and mischief as Christmas....
A historian cannot help feeling a certain admiration for the sheer audacity behind the rise of the...
There are few mounted soldiers in late medieval Europe who inspired as much admiration, frustration and sheer...
Historians sometimes try to sound detached about Mohács, as if the calamity could be tidied into a...
Edward VI is one of those monarchs who feels a bit like a footnote until you look...
Piracy in the Caribbean was never a single era or a neat collection of names. It was...
The Second Battle of St Albans, fought on 17 February 1461, has always struck me as one...
The Landsknechts have always felt like the rowdiest footnote in early modern Europe. They marched across the...
The Battle of Vitoria in June 1813 often gets reduced to a neat tale of Wellington outmanoeuvring...