The Tepanec War was the turning point that forged the foundation of the Aztec Triple Alliance and...
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.
Few rulers in history have undergone a transformation as profound as Ashoka, the Mauryan emperor who went...
The Battle of Gerberoy, fought in May 1435 near the small town of Gerberoy in northern France,...
The Battle of Corinth in 146 BC was more than the fall of a city. It marked...
If early medieval history is a fog, then Hengest is one of the shapes moving faintly within...
Few names in Japanese history stir as much quiet reverence among sword scholars as Amakuni Yasutsuna. Depending...
The Battle of Ludford Bridge was not so much a clash of swords as a collapse of...
When Bernardo Bertolucci released The Last Emperor in 1987, it was clearly something unexpected. It was in...
The Battle of Pelagonia was fought in 1259 in the plains of Macedonia, and it stands as...
Few names in Greek mythology provoke such a delicious mixture of fascination and unease as Circe. She...