Tom Holland
Historian, novelist and podcaster
Tom Holland is a British historian, novelist and podcaster. He is especially known for Dominion, a book on the Christian roots of Western morality.
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British Born 1968 in Oxford, United Kingdom
About Tom Holland
Tom Holland was born in 1968. He first wrote Gothic fiction, then went on to write many books, including works of classical history. His history Rubicon won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, and Persian Fire won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award in 2006. For the BBC, Holland has prepared versions of Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil, and he has presented the radio series Making History. He has also written and presented television documentaries. In 2007 he won the Classical Association prize. Alongside the historian Dominic Sandbrook, he hosts the podcast The Rest Is History. Dominion is the book in our catalog.