Tom Holland
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
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Recommends Pagans and Christians
Robin Lane Fox's book is the best modern account that I can think of which will give people the sense of how this remarkable revolution took place.
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Recommends The Roman Triumph
But there is also a deep pleasure in looking at some of the things that we think we know about Rome, or the myths that we know are not actually true, taking the mystery to pieces and examining the works and seeing what is there. This is what Mary Beard does in her book.
fivebooks.com 13 Sept 2011
Recommends The Roman Revolution
This again is an absolute classic which is completely informed by Tacitus. It has that very mordant take on the way that power works and operates.
fivebooks.com 13 Sept 2011
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Recommends The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But the truth is that it remains incredibly readable. As I said before, it takes Tacitus as its model, who was famous for his waspish style, and a careful balancing and modulating of the sentences so that irony would be generated. This is what Gibbon does as well, and it means that not only is it an incredible work of scholarship but it is also compulsively entertaining. I really think that anyone who is prepared to give it a chance will find themselves smiling at the very least throughout it.
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Recommends The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius's work is a collection of biographies of the first 12 Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar through to Domitian. And it really had a crucial sense of shaping our understanding of Imperial Rome as a place of vice and savagery and sexual depravity and violent, brutal, bawdy splendour.
fivebooks.com 13 Sept 2011
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- To Covent Garden, there to see Don Giovanni! Excited to find out how the performance of the Commendatore compares to my own at the Royal Albert Hall a couple of years ago… 15 Oct 2026
- The first love song in English! Beautifully performed by the incomparable Muco. Many more such medieval bangers here: 15 Oct 2026
- “They angrily overturned the chess board in the midst of a tautly contested game.” Kyle Harper - in his new book, The Last Animal - on the planet’s five mass extinctions 15 Oct 2026
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- Wendy Doniger, in an otherwise acerbic account of the Raj, wrote of the deep love felt by the British for India. “Reasons that jump off every page of Kim: the beauty of the land, the richness & intensity of human interactions, the infinite variety of religious forms.” 15 Oct 2026
- I doubt a council that struggles to issue a parking permit is really up to solving the most intractable crisis in the Middle East. 15 Oct 2026
- More KING ARTHUR today on @TheRestHistory, as we explore the emergence of knighthood, the invention of chivalry, and the role played in both by the greatest knight of the Round Table: SIR LANCELOT. Guinevere-focussed shenanigans a-plenty... 15 Oct 2026
- Our first ever musical bonus today on @TheRestHistory, as the brilliant Muco sings SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT – plus a host of other medieval bangers! 14 Oct 2026
- On the eve of the feast day of St Edward the Confessor, to Westminster Abbey, there to mark this auspicious time 12 Oct 2026
- This is an extraordinary book: biographical sketches of all the people in Brian Epstein’s address book, which Gary Kemp (yes, THAT Gary Kemp) bought in an auction. An amazing work of cultural & social history. I’m interviewing Gary & Simon tomorrow 12 Oct 2026
- This is a fantastic book - the history of wine such a fascinating topic 12 Oct 2026
- "And men say that he shall come again..." Today on @TheRestHistory, in the first episode in an epic series on KING ARTHUR, we are travelling to AVALON. How, why & when did it come to be believed that Arthur is the Once & Future King? 12 Oct 2026
- Starting this Monday on @TheRestHistory, an epic new series on KING ARTHUR 10 Oct 2026
- To Parsifal at the ROH. Ekaterina Gubanova sublime as Kundry: somehow making sense of what must be the most contradictory role In Wagner. Jakub Hrůša’s conducting a spectacle in itself. A conceit that works very cleverly in Act 1; disastrously in Act 3. The music conquers all… 9 Oct 2026
- Absolute legend 9 Oct 2026
- Punchy of the Allies when they invaded Crimea in 1854 to have done so at Kalamita Bay on the anniversary of Napoleon's entry into Moscow. 9 Oct 2026
- Tremendous news for the book-buying public of Britain! 8 Oct 2026
- The climax today not just of our series on THE TERROR, but of 4 seasons about THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. We have arrived at THERMIDOR: the downfall of Robespierre... 8 Oct 2026
- The Brixton Chamber Orchestra is one of the cultural glories of south London, & now it is going GOSPEL. I heard them do this once before, & truly it was one of the most joyous evenings I have ever had in Brixton. If you haven't heard the BCO before - you have a treat in store! 7 Oct 2026
- Important #Illuminati #RoyalFamily #Lizards 7 Oct 2026
- Let terror be the order of the day! 7 Oct 2026
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- 352: Amsterdam: Kings, Canals, and Coffee Houses (Part 2) 20 Jul 2023
- Trailer 28 Oct 2020
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