Augustus is often described as Rome’s first emperor, though he would have bristled at the title. What...
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 quick historian’s note before we start Calling any weapon “the most deadly” always makes historians twitch...
Ancient Greece gets credited with a lot, sometimes fairly, sometimes lazily. Not every clever idea sprang fully...
Laurens de Graaf has a habit of pulling the reader straight into warm, treacherous waters where loyalties...
1. It was built for control, not brute force The longsword gets a reputation as a heavy...
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...