There is little doubt that Athens was the centre of Classical Greece and as the head honcho of Athens, Pericles was effectively head of much of the Hellenic world. The crux of this article is to investigate the aspects of one of his more famous pieces of legislation, the Citizenship Law of 450/1.

Widely considered as the first modern historian, Thucydides is still a giant in the annals of analytical writing, but how much good were his early speeches in helping us understand the outbreak and early years of the Peloponnesian War

My take on one of the most intriguing military conflicts in history and why possibly the most influential general with regards to battlefield tactics was doomed to failure.

Storying the last years of the Byzantine Empire from the Fourth Crusade to the final fall of Constantinople in 1453 and assessing whether the interference of Timur at the turn of the 15th century could have been the last chance for survival for the "fag-end of the Roman Empire" (according to my university tutor)

Highlighting the military collapse of the most influential empire the world has ever known

From the time they first arrived on the steppes of eastern Europe through the reign of Attila until their defeat on the lost Nedao river, the Huns were one of, if not the, dominant force in continental Europe. At their height they ruled a domain that stretched from the Black Sea to modern day France and as far south as northern Greece and the river Po in Italy.

A study of the aftermath of the abortive Fourth Crusade which, instead of attacking the Turkish 'enemies of the faith' in the Holy Land, captured two Christian cities in the eastern Mediterranean, putting the last bastion of eastern Christianity, Constantinople, to the sack in 1204.