Tom Holland
Articles by Tom Holland
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South America
“All will be done again as it was in far-off times”
- 15 October 2009
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
Religion
Kingdoms not of this world
- 02 April 2009
- 1 comment
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
Ideas
Golden thread, national myth
- 18 December 2008
- 2 comments
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
Religion
Uncomfortable origins
- 20 November 2008
- 11 comments
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
Ideas
Europe's first revolution
- 09 October 2008
- 6 comments
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
Culture
The Persian Renaissance
- 19 September 2005
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
Politics
What Bush can learn from the Romans
- 25 August 2003
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
Books
Incomparable ruin
- 17 June 2002
The Parthenon Mary Beard Profile Books, 209pp, £15 ISBN 186197292X
Culture
A sure fang
- 19 February 2001
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
Books
Sex with sister
- 18 September 2000
Augusta Leigh: Byron's half-sister Michael and Melissa Bakewell Chatto & Windus, 438pp, £25 ISBN 0185619754
