In the spring of 70 CE, Titus brought a Roman army to Jerusalem to finish a war...
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.
Oda Nobunaga helped make the reunification of Japan possible, then died before he could finish it. Between...
On 27 May 1644, the armies meeting near Shanhai Pass fought over the future of northern China....
The Battle of Marignano, fought on 13–14 September 1515 near modern Melegnano, south-east of Milan, ended in...
Vespasian inherited an empire which had spent a year demonstrating how many emperors it could dispose of....
An arquebusier needed dry powder, a glowing match and the nerve to keep working while someone tried...
Military history becomes much easier to understand when you can see where events happened and how they...
Egyptian charioteers helped turn the armies of the New Kingdom into an imperial force. Working in pairs...
On 8 May 1648, an army fighting for Charles I was defeated outside St Fagans, west of...
Pericles helped Athens become the city through which later generations would imagine ancient Greece. The Parthenon rose...