John Julius Norwich

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1. John Julius Norwich

   Author of A History of Venice, Byzantium: The Apogee, Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485

2. Steven Runciman

   Author of A History of the Crusades, Volume I : The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, The Fall of Constantinople 1453, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto)

3. Jan Morris

   Author of Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

4. Anthony Powell

   Author of A Question of Upbringing, The Acceptance World, Messengers of Day: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell

5. Thomas Hodgkin

   Author of The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire: Vol I, The Visigothic Invasion, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire: Vol IV, The Imperial Restoration, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire: Vol III, The Ostrogoths

6. Christopher Hibbert

   Author of The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Cities and Civilisations, Rome: The Biography of a City

7. James Lees-Milne

   Author of Another Self, Prophesying Peace, Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1992

8. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, Dead Certainties : Unwarranted Speculations

9. C. V. Wedgwood

   Author of The Thirty Years War, The King's Peace, 1637-1641, The King's War, 1641-1647

10. Antonia Fraser

    Author of The Weaker Vessel, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, King Charles II

11. Tom Holland

    Author of Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

12. Desmond Seward

    Author of The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Arkana), Eleanor of Aquitaine the Mother Queen

13. Roger Crowley

    Author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

14. Michael Psellus

    Author of Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)

15. Robin Lane Fox

    Author of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, Alexander the Great, Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer

16. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of Shakespeare: The Biography, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, Venice

17. Alison Weir

    Author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Princes in the Tower, Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses

18. M. I. Finley

    Author of The World of Odysseus, Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies

19. John Rigby Hale

    Author of Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, Age of exploration

20. Procopius

    Author of The Secret History