Tom Holland
@holland-tom.bsky.social
New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.bsky.social
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Tom Holland
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Sorcery, secrets & angelically-inspired wife-swapping today on @TheRestHistory, as we explore the extraordinary career of Elizabeth I's great magus: DR JOHN DEE.
Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
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Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
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I did not have a @holland-tom.bsky.social expression of endless love and admiration for Unai Emery on my bingo card but there it is! Check out @theresthistory.bsky.social episode 543. at around 38:30. Would follow him into the darkest Amazon jungle if The Mister said that was the plan! #avfc #utv
March 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I did not have a @holland-tom.bsky.social expression of endless love and admiration for Unai Emery on my bingo card but there it is! Check out @theresthistory.bsky.social episode 543. at around 38:30. Would follow him into the darkest Amazon jungle if The Mister said that was the plan! #avfc #utv
Today on @theresthistory.bsky.social (a coda to our recent series on KING LEOPOLD’s CONGO) we have the great novelist, John Banville, on the extraordinary life and death of the Irish nationalist knighted for services to the British Empire, ROGER CASEMENT.
You can hear it here: therestishistory.com
You can hear it here: therestishistory.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Today on @theresthistory.bsky.social (a coda to our recent series on KING LEOPOLD’s CONGO) we have the great novelist, John Banville, on the extraordinary life and death of the Irish nationalist knighted for services to the British Empire, ROGER CASEMENT.
You can hear it here: therestishistory.com
You can hear it here: therestishistory.com
Mountainman- Eleanor Rigby [USA, Psych Lounge](‘71) the darkest version of this song I’ve heard, Vietnam vets in Southern California turn on, tune in and dropped out
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Mountainman- Eleanor Rigby [USA, Psych Lounge](‘71) the darkest version of this song I’ve heard, Vietnam vets in Southern California turn on, tune in and dropped out
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February 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Sorcery, secrets & angelically-inspired wife-swapping today on @TheRestHistory, as we explore the extraordinary career of Elizabeth I's great magus: DR JOHN DEE.
Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
linktr.ee/restishistory
Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
linktr.ee/restishistory
February 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Sorcery, secrets & angelically-inspired wife-swapping today on @TheRestHistory, as we explore the extraordinary career of Elizabeth I's great magus: DR JOHN DEE.
Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
linktr.ee/restishistory
Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
linktr.ee/restishistory
Tomorrow’s episode of The Rest Is History is on the great Tudor magus, DR JOHN DEE
February 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Tomorrow’s episode of The Rest Is History is on the great Tudor magus, DR JOHN DEE
Today on @TheRestHistory - a coda to our recent series on KING LEOPOLD'S CONGO - the most famous work of fiction ever written about European colonialism: Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS.
From Poland to the Congo to the Thames: the horror, the horror!
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From Poland to the Congo to the Thames: the horror, the horror!
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February 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Today on @TheRestHistory - a coda to our recent series on KING LEOPOLD'S CONGO - the most famous work of fiction ever written about European colonialism: Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS.
From Poland to the Congo to the Thames: the horror, the horror!
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From Poland to the Congo to the Thames: the horror, the horror!
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Today on @theresthistory.bsky.social, continuing our series on HORROR IN THE CONGO, we reach the climax of the story: A CONSPIRACY UNMASKED.
The extraordinary story of Edmund Dene Morel, & how he revealed to an appalled world the truth about King Leopold's fiefdom.
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The extraordinary story of Edmund Dene Morel, & how he revealed to an appalled world the truth about King Leopold's fiefdom.
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February 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Today on @theresthistory.bsky.social, continuing our series on HORROR IN THE CONGO, we reach the climax of the story: A CONSPIRACY UNMASKED.
The extraordinary story of Edmund Dene Morel, & how he revealed to an appalled world the truth about King Leopold's fiefdom.
linktr.ee/restishistory
The extraordinary story of Edmund Dene Morel, & how he revealed to an appalled world the truth about King Leopold's fiefdom.
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Courtesy of @genkigalcycling.bsky.social, a 1939 article about my great-uncle, Charlie Holland.
He was indeed a great all-rounder: not only did he race in the Tour de France & the 1936 Olympics, but he trialled for Aston Villa & Warwickshire CC
He was indeed a great all-rounder: not only did he race in the Tour de France & the 1936 Olympics, but he trialled for Aston Villa & Warwickshire CC
February 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Courtesy of @genkigalcycling.bsky.social, a 1939 article about my great-uncle, Charlie Holland.
He was indeed a great all-rounder: not only did he race in the Tour de France & the 1936 Olympics, but he trialled for Aston Villa & Warwickshire CC
He was indeed a great all-rounder: not only did he race in the Tour de France & the 1936 Olympics, but he trialled for Aston Villa & Warwickshire CC
An absolutely top interview with moi in the Telegraph, which as well as noting - correctly - that I look 35, ends with the tremendous detail that I was the 2024 AuthorsCC Fielder of the Year www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
The Rest Is History’s Tom Holland: ‘History doesn’t exist to teach us moral lessons’
The author-turned-podcaster on how he struck rich serving listeners turned off by the BBC
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
An absolutely top interview with moi in the Telegraph, which as well as noting - correctly - that I look 35, ends with the tremendous detail that I was the 2024 AuthorsCC Fielder of the Year www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - HORROR IN THE CONGO
February 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - HORROR IN THE CONGO
What would Rome's great biographer of the Caesars have made of the leader of the world's current apex superpower?
I have hazarded a guess for @TheTimesBooks.
So here it is: The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
I have hazarded a guess for @TheTimesBooks.
So here it is: The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (aka Tom Holland)
The Roman historian who wrote The Lives of the Caesars would have been fascinated by the 47th US president. The Rest of History’s Tom Holland imagines how he would profile the Potus
www.thetimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What would Rome's great biographer of the Caesars have made of the leader of the world's current apex superpower?
I have hazarded a guess for @TheTimesBooks.
So here it is: The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
I have hazarded a guess for @TheTimesBooks.
So here it is: The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Pondering the aftermath of Hastings, and Edith Swan-Neck searching the battlefield for the corpse of Harold, and what should I see?
February 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Pondering the aftermath of Hastings, and Edith Swan-Neck searching the battlefield for the corpse of Harold, and what should I see?
I am so sad to learn this. Bob Moore was one of the great historians of his generation, and his books were massively influential (on me, FWIW, not least).
He was unfailingly kind and generous - a wonderful man.
My deepest commiserations to all his family.
RIP
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He was unfailingly kind and generous - a wonderful man.
My deepest commiserations to all his family.
RIP
bsky.app/profile/rich...
My father, the medieval historian Bob (R.I.) Moore, died peacefully this morning after a long and increasingly-not-fun battle with cancer.
February 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I am so sad to learn this. Bob Moore was one of the great historians of his generation, and his books were massively influential (on me, FWIW, not least).
He was unfailingly kind and generous - a wonderful man.
My deepest commiserations to all his family.
RIP
bsky.app/profile/rich...
He was unfailingly kind and generous - a wonderful man.
My deepest commiserations to all his family.
RIP
bsky.app/profile/rich...
Today on @TheRestHistory, in the final episode in our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we explore the humiliations & triumphs experienced by CLAUDIUS!
Snot, spindly legs, coups, gladiators, aqueducts, ancient Britons, adultery & mushrooms all feature!
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Snot, spindly legs, coups, gladiators, aqueducts, ancient Britons, adultery & mushrooms all feature!
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February 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today on @TheRestHistory, in the final episode in our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we explore the humiliations & triumphs experienced by CLAUDIUS!
Snot, spindly legs, coups, gladiators, aqueducts, ancient Britons, adultery & mushrooms all feature!
linktr.ee/restishistory
Snot, spindly legs, coups, gladiators, aqueducts, ancient Britons, adultery & mushrooms all feature!
linktr.ee/restishistory
Magnificent work, @waterstones.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Magnificent work, @waterstones.bsky.social
"It is no simple matter to decide whether he behaved more disgracefully when ending a marriage, or living as a husband."
I complete a life of Donald Trump for @thetimes.com, written in the style of Suetonius.
I complete a life of Donald Trump for @thetimes.com, written in the style of Suetonius.
February 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"It is no simple matter to decide whether he behaved more disgracefully when ending a marriage, or living as a husband."
I complete a life of Donald Trump for @thetimes.com, written in the style of Suetonius.
I complete a life of Donald Trump for @thetimes.com, written in the style of Suetonius.
Today on @TheRestHistory, continuing our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, it's the most notorious Roman emperor of them all: CALIGULA!!!
Was he really bad? Was he really mad? What about the incest? Making his horse a consul? How & why was he killed?
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Was he really bad? Was he really mad? What about the incest? Making his horse a consul? How & why was he killed?
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February 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Today on @TheRestHistory, continuing our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, it's the most notorious Roman emperor of them all: CALIGULA!!!
Was he really bad? Was he really mad? What about the incest? Making his horse a consul? How & why was he killed?
linktr.ee/restishistory
Was he really bad? Was he really mad? What about the incest? Making his horse a consul? How & why was he killed?
linktr.ee/restishistory
Reposted by Tom Holland
This is an excellent, nuanced & (as usual with The Rest is History) wryly humorous exploration of the enduring enigma that is Tiberius. For folks with an interest in Tiberius the general & strategist I explored these facets of the most perplexing of princeps in my book Iron Imperator: a.co/d/b1R50BW
January 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is an excellent, nuanced & (as usual with The Rest is History) wryly humorous exploration of the enduring enigma that is Tiberius. For folks with an interest in Tiberius the general & strategist I explored these facets of the most perplexing of princeps in my book Iron Imperator: a.co/d/b1R50BW
Continuing our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we explore the enigma that is TIBERIUS.
How is he best remembered – as a withered, blood-bespattered pervert, or as a war hero who twice saved his country, & became the Prospero of ancient Rome?
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How is he best remembered – as a withered, blood-bespattered pervert, or as a war hero who twice saved his country, & became the Prospero of ancient Rome?
linktr.ee/restishistory
January 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Continuing our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we explore the enigma that is TIBERIUS.
How is he best remembered – as a withered, blood-bespattered pervert, or as a war hero who twice saved his country, & became the Prospero of ancient Rome?
linktr.ee/restishistory
How is he best remembered – as a withered, blood-bespattered pervert, or as a war hero who twice saved his country, & became the Prospero of ancient Rome?
linktr.ee/restishistory
Today on @TheRestHistory
- SEX SECRETS OF THE CAESARS!
Introducing a series on the lives of Tiberius, Caligula & Claudius, we explore the themes of sex & violence in imperial Rome.
Were the emperors really as mad & bad as they are so often portrayed?
linktr.ee/restishistory
- SEX SECRETS OF THE CAESARS!
Introducing a series on the lives of Tiberius, Caligula & Claudius, we explore the themes of sex & violence in imperial Rome.
Were the emperors really as mad & bad as they are so often portrayed?
linktr.ee/restishistory
January 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today on @TheRestHistory
- SEX SECRETS OF THE CAESARS!
Introducing a series on the lives of Tiberius, Caligula & Claudius, we explore the themes of sex & violence in imperial Rome.
Were the emperors really as mad & bad as they are so often portrayed?
linktr.ee/restishistory
- SEX SECRETS OF THE CAESARS!
Introducing a series on the lives of Tiberius, Caligula & Claudius, we explore the themes of sex & violence in imperial Rome.
Were the emperors really as mad & bad as they are so often portrayed?
linktr.ee/restishistory
Reposted by Tom Holland
Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS!
January 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS!
Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS!
January 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS!
In an unprecedented development, I have gone on a podcast to talk about Christianity bsky.app/profile/ppfi...
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode in our series on revolutionary ideas is a conversation covering two millennia with the historian @holland-tom.bsky.social exploring the never-ending upending of human understanding brought about by Christianity.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode in our series on revolutionary ideas is a conversation covering two millennia with the historian @holland-tom.bsky.social exploring the never-ending upending of human understanding brought about by Christianity.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In an unprecedented development, I have gone on a podcast to talk about Christianity bsky.app/profile/ppfi...
Reposted by Tom Holland
Your mosaicists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
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December 9, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Your mosaicists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
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Today on The Rest Is History we explore the origins, development & consequences of one of the profoundest changes in all history: the emergence of humanity as an urban species.
But just how did THE WORLD'S FIRST CITY serve to transform human nature?
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But just how did THE WORLD'S FIRST CITY serve to transform human nature?
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December 5, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Today on The Rest Is History we explore the origins, development & consequences of one of the profoundest changes in all history: the emergence of humanity as an urban species.
But just how did THE WORLD'S FIRST CITY serve to transform human nature?
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But just how did THE WORLD'S FIRST CITY serve to transform human nature?
linktr.ee/restishistory