Author of one of the best-selling historical works of recent years, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, and described by the New Statesman as ‘the history rock star du jour’, Peter Frankopan is an historian at Oxford University where he holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. The Silk Roads topped the Sunday Times non-fiction best-seller list in 2015 and spent nine months in the Top 10, as well as being the Daily Telegraph History Book of the year in 2015. Peter will be talking about the region he calls ‘the world’s central nervous system’, that part of the world ‘where civilisation itself began, where the world’s great religions were born and took root.’
