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Tom Holland, English author and popular historian, poses for a portrait at the Cliveden Literary Festival at Cliveden House on September 30, 2023 in Windsor, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
ALLIED TROOPS

The impact of recency bias on our perception of historical events and achievements

Tom Holland draws extensively on the great work by the father of history, Herodotus, whose The Histories is a searching, if often discursive, investigation into the roots and…

  • Darryl Accone
7 min read
Shipping out: A 15th-century manuscript shows Marco Polo setting out from Venice in 1271.
APOLLO XI

Testaments well travelled

Scepticism has dogged stories of exploration from Ancient Greece through to Apollo XI

  • Darryl Accone
7 min read