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�All will be done again as it was in far-off times�

Tom Holland — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:38:24 GMT

Surveying the fragments of an obliterated civilisation at the British Museum�s Moctezuma exhibition, Tom Holland is haunted by the parallels between our vulnerable globalised world and that of the doomed Aztecs

Kingdoms not of this world

Tom Holland — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:47:35 GMT

To imagine that Islam can be transformed with a little nudge here and there into a kind of Church of England with hijabs is absurd, writes Tom Holland. For Christians and Muslims worship different gods, and this has a huge influence on the relationship between religion and state, even in the modern world

Golden thread, national myth

Tom Holland — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:44:59 GMT

Those behind the new Labour revolution are beginning to realise that to discard our heritage is also to betray the origins of many of our liberties. The question is how to interpret the meanings of those liberties for modern political life

Uncomfortable origins

Tom Holland — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:30:27 GMT

We have had a remarkable response to Tom Holland's essay of 13 October on the Christian roots of European secularism. Here the author responds

Europe's first revolution

Tom Holland — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:29:41 GMT

The west faces increasing tension with the Muslim world. To plot a course through this turbulent age, Europe must come to terms with what we owe to our Christian past

The Persian Renaissance

Tom Holland — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT

A spectacular exhibition devoted to the glories of the ancient Persian empire has opened at the British Museum. It represents one of the great success stories of ancient history

What Bush can learn from the Romans

Tom Holland — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT

A republic founded on high ideals of liberty becomes a great world power and then drifts into empire. Sounds familiar? It all happened 2,000 years ago

Incomparable ruin

Tom Holland — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 GMT

The Parthenon Mary Beard Profile Books, 209pp, �15 ISBN 186197292X

A sure fang

Tom Holland — Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:00:00 GMT

The myths that fed the vampire tradition are all but exhausted. Yet in a world where the living are revived by the organs of the dead, the genre is bound to survive, argues Tom Holland

Sex with sister

Tom Holland — Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Augusta Leigh: Byron's half-sister Michael and Melissa Bakewell Chatto & Windus, 438pp, �25 ISBN 0185619754