Few Viking figures stand on such uncertain ground as Bjorn Ironside. He appears as a fearless warrior,...
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 Welsh spearmen and Archers of the 13th and 14th centuries occupied a fascinating place in medieval...
Few medieval commanders feel as strangely modern as Jan Žižka. A Czech nobleman, mercenary and revolutionary general,...
Rediscovering Europe’s Martial Past Historical European Martial Arts, better known as HEMA, is the study and practice...
The Battle of al-Buḥayra in 1130 was one of the defining early clashes between the rising Almohad...
Few figures in British history provoke debate quite like Oliver Cromwell. To some, he was the defender...
A Norman With More Ambition Than Land Robert Guiscard began life with very little reason to expect...
The conquest of Sicily between 1061 and 1091 was one of the most remarkable military campaigns of...
A Beautifully Dangerous Game Of Crowns When The White Queen arrived in 2013, it brought the Wars...
Andrew II of Hungary ruled from 1205 to 1235, a period when medieval Europe was changing rapidly....