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HollandTom Holland
Author
Tom Holland is the author of three highly praised works of history. The first, Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His book on the Graeco-Persian wars, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006. His new book, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, was published to great critical acclaim in the autumn of 2008. He is currently writing a book on late antiquity and the origins of Islam. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC, and is currently working on a translation of Herodotus for Penguin Classics. He presented a programme on St Paul for Channel 4, and writes regularly on religious matters for The New Statesman.
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National FInal: National Final 2009/10
DEBATE: Secularism
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