Thank you to everyone who joined us for the start of our Autumn Lecture Series on Monday 14 September with Tom Holland. You can find a recording of the lecture and the Q&A on our website by clicking here.

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. His latest book Dominion is a rich and compelling history of Christendom which won The Sunday Times History Book of the Year in 2019. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty. Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented major TV documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs.

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