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Meet the Trustees

Tom Holland

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, translator and broadcaster. He has written books about the Graeco-Persian wars; Roman history from the fall of the Republic to the age of Hadrian; empire and religion in late antiquity; Anglo-Saxon England; 11th-century Latin Christendom; and the evolution and impact on the world of Christianity. 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. He has written and presented numerous TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from the Islamic State to dinosaurs. 

He is a trustee of the British Library, an honorary fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and has been described in The Times as 'a leading English cricketer'.

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