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Historian.The World a Family History.Jerusalem: a History of the MiddleEast. StalinRedTsar. YgStalin. TheRomanovs. CatherinetheGreat. Novels: the Moscow Trilogy

David Baddiel

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Tom Holland

New history of Rome's heyday - Pax - out now! Dinosaur lover. Stonehenge Tunnel hater. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times. Podcast: @theresthistory

Simon Schama

The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order

Merve Emre

Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism. Director of Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at @wesleyan_u. Critic, @newyorker