The Battle of Stiklestad in July 1030 sits at an awkward crossroads in Scandinavian history. It was...
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 Sphacteria in 425 BC sits at a curious crossroads in the Peloponnesian War. It...
Edward the Confessor sits at the threshold between early medieval England and the incoming Norman age, and...
Henry V sits in that curious pocket of English memory where schoolroom tales, Shakespearean theatre and the...
A historian gets used to certain questions. This one rarely leaves the top three. The six wives...
There is something rather satisfying about writing on the Hungarian Hussars. They were never the most heavily...
History rarely gives young kings an easy ride. Edmund I inherited a kingdom still reforming itself after...
Szigetvár sits in that uneasy corner of Central Europe where the Habsburgs and Ottomans continually tried to...
A Historian’s Guide to the Old Midwinter Yule has the sort of reputation that makes a historian...
The Tokugawa Shogunate always feels like one of those periods where restraint shaped an entire civilisation. When...