Tom Holland

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of numerous books including Rubicon, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Dominion, which tells the epic story of how those in the West came to be what they are, and why they think the way they do, and, Pax, the definitive history of Rome’s golden age. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs. He is also co-presenter of the top 10 podcast, The Rest is History.