A number of people in the reading group are fans of G.P. Baker, including myself. Not much can be found of him when googling his name except links to his books and occasional reviews.
I posted a summary of his life in 2006, G.P. Baker's life & a book review, when we read his "Justinian, the Last Roman Emperor."
Even though he wrote his biographies from the aspect of the 1920s and early 1930s, I get a lot out of his books, especially the psychological observations about his subject. And in Tiberius Caesar, he devotes quite a few pages to what he calls the "Roman word-state," which are well worth reading. One has to overlook (probably contemporary) idiosyncrasies such as singular names for peoples: "The Roman," "the German," "the Parthian," and so on. He seems to have been an autodidact, but I may well stand to be corrected.
