Tom Holland

Tom Holland (born 5 January 1968 in Oxford) is an English popular historian, writer and broadcaster. His books include Rubicon, on the last years of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, a history of the Graeco-Persian wars, which won the Runciman Award in 2006; and In the Shadow of the Sword. He also works as a podcaster, journalist and screenwriter, and he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2016. His X account, holland_Tom, had about 278,000 followers in February 2023.