Authors

Paul Ham is a historian, lecturer and journalist, and the author of a dozen histories of war, religion and politics. In 2024 he completed The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (to be published by Penguin Random House in July), an extraordinary quest in search of the font of human willpower and the engine of human history. He has previously published Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth (Penguin Random House), Hiroshima Nagasaki (Pan Macmillan USA and PRH UK), Sandakan (PRH UK and Australia), 1914 (PRH UK and Australia) and several more. All his books have won or been shortlisted for literary prizes and several have been translated into multiple languages.

Paul teaches a course in narrative history at SciencesPo in France called ‘How to Write Readable History’. Previously he worked as a foreign correspondent, for 12 years, for The Sunday Times (UK), was a financial journalist with the Sunday Times and the FT Group and edited the British journal of Amnesty International. In the 1990s he co-founded, built and sold a successful start-up, publishing financial newsletters. He has a Masters degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He lives in Paris and co-hosts a monthly dining club whose name is yet to be released.