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Tom Holland

Tom Holland

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, translator and broadcaster. His most recent book, Pax, covers the heyday of the Roman Empire. He has translated Herodotus and Suetonius for Penguin Classics. He is co-presenter of the world’s most popular history podcast, The Rest is History, which in 2025 was Apple’s Podcast of the Year. He has written and presented several TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from the Islamic State to dinosaurs. He is a trustee of the British Library and the British Museum, an honorary fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and has been described in The Times as “a leading English cricketer.”

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