The Landsknechts have always felt like the rowdiest footnote in early modern Europe. They marched across the...
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 Vitoria in June 1813 often gets reduced to a neat tale of Wellington outmanoeuvring...
Honorius is one of those rulers who tends to shuffle in the background of late Roman history,...
Across the long sweep of human history, a few ruling families managed to shape their age with...
There are few subjects I return to as often as medieval castles. Some scholars prefer manuscripts or...
Hernán Cortés is one of those figures who refuses to sit quietly in the corner of history....
Elizabeth I tends to loom over the sixteenth century like a figure carved out of light and...
The reputation of the Huscarl still stirs something in me. They come across as the sort of...
Otumba sits in that uncomfortable category of battles that look impossible on paper yet somehow happened anyway....
A decisive clash near the end of the Hundred Years War, Formigny sits in that odd corner...