

Gibraltar Lecture. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
Tom Holland Interviewed by Alex Preston
Sunday, 5 April 2020
2:00pm
1 hour
Sheldonian Theatre
£7 - £12.50
Event sponsored by
Historian, biographer and broadcaster Tom Holland explains how we came to think the way we do and why so many of the instincts of the western mind remain Christian despite growing doubts about the claims of religion.
Holland ranges from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480BC to today’s migration crisis in Europe and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles as he explores what made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive and how it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom.
Holland is presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History and has written and presented television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs. He is author of many books including Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, winner of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, and Persian Fire, winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. He is also winner of the Classical Association prize for ‘the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome’.
Here he talks to award-winning novelist Alex Preston including of In Love and War.
The Gibraltar Lecture is given at the invitation of HM Government of
Gibraltar. Previous speakers have been Paola Diana (2019), Baroness Helena Kennedy (2018), Laurence Rees (2017), Boyd Tonkin (2016), Professor Frank Close (2015), and Ben Okri (2014).
Holland will be introduced by The Hon Vijay Daryanani, Minister for Business, Tourism and Transport, Government of Gibraltar.




























































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