Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of a series of books on ancient and early medieval history, including Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England and Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic. He also presents BBC Radio 4’s Making History, has written and presented several TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs, and he has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. He also co-hosts The Rest Is History podcast with Dominic Sandbrook.