Kusanagi no Tsurugi Kusanagi no Tsurugi sits above every other Japanese sword because it was never really...
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 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...
Henry I of England is often remembered as the quiet administrator of the Norman kings, the man...
The Hundred Years’ War is usually flattened into a neat timeline of kings, battles, and victories. In...
The Battle of Aylesford is one of those early clashes where written sources are sparse, archaeology is...
When we talk about the birth of Denmark as a kingdom, everything keeps circling back to Gorm...
The Battle of Delos sits at a turning point in Hellenistic naval warfare. It was fought off...
Few rulers unsettle the tidy categories of Egyptian history like Akhenaten. He reigned in the mid fourteenth...