The Battle of Salamis, fought in September 480 BCE, gave the Greek alliance a desperately needed victory...
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 Civitate, fought on 18 June 1053 near the River Fortore in southern Italy, ended...
Thutmose III had a remarkable talent for winning battles and ensuring that Egypt’s temple walls remembered them....
The Battle of Alarcos was a decisive Almohad victory over Alfonso VIII of Castile in July 1195,...
Erik Bloodaxe has one of those names that appears to have done half the historian’s work before...
The Mongol warrior usually appears in the popular imagination with a bow drawn, turning in the saddle...
Vulcan was the Roman god of fire, associated both with its destructive force and, through his identification...
At the Battle of Mantinea in 362 BCE, the Theban commander Epaminondas broke through an enemy army...
The Battle of Tewkesbury, fought on 4 May 1471, was a decisive Yorkist victory in the Wars...
On 30 May 1434, near the village of Lipany in central Bohemia, Hussite fought Hussite. The moderate...