Jessica Leggett

Jessica Leggett

Editor at Future Bookazines

Jessica is a former staff writer for History of Royals and All About History magazines. She has both a Bachelor and Master's degree in History from the University of Winchester, with dissertations on 'The Power of Dress' in the French court between the mid-sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and 'Abdicating Queens': an analysis of the contemporary and modern images of Juana la Loca, Mary, Queen of Scots and Christina, Queen of Sweden.'

Articles by: Jessica Leggett

A colored glass lightbulb smashed on the floor

20 inventions that changed the world

By Natalie Wolchover, Jessica Leggett last updated

From the wheel 5,500 years ago to the birth control pill, these 20 inventions had huge ramifications and have helped humans shape the world around us.

A mask of the rain god Chac decorates the facade of a pyramid at North Acropolis, in Mayan ruins, located in Tikal, Guatemala.

The Maya: History, civilization & gods

By Owen Jarus, Jessica Leggett last updated

The Maya civilization stretched throughout Central America and reached its peak during the first millennium A.D.

Reproduction of Ötzi the Iceman an in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy

Ötzi the Iceman: The famous frozen mummy

By Tom Garlinghouse, Jessica Leggett published

Reference Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old man whose mummified remains were dug out of an Italian glacier in the Alps, has fascinated the public since his discovery in 1991.

Marie Curie in her laboratory

Marie Curie: Facts and biography

By Mary Bagley, Jessica Leggett published

Reference Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation.

When was Jesus born? Stained glass window of Jesus at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church, Ashfield, New South Wales.

When was Jesus born?

By Joseph Castro, Jessica Leggett published

Reference Although millions of people celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Dec. 25, most scholars agree that he wasn't born on that day, or even in the year 1 A.D.