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An evening with Bettany Hughes

An evening with Bettany Hughes

Historian, Author, Broadcaster & GDST alumna Bettany Hughes will be speaking at SHS on 20th March. Tickets are selling fast, so don't miss out and book your tickets now.

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her previous books include The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (a Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025); Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddess (shortlisted for the Runciman Award), Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Runciman Award), The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and The Search For The Good Life (a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Writers Guild Award) and Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore. All her books have been translated into multiple languages. She has made many documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, ABC and the Discovery and History channels. Bettany has been a Professor at the New College of Humanities and Research Fellow at King’s College London. She has been honoured with numerous awards including the Medlicott Medal for services to history, Europe’s Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to history.

An evening with Bettany Hughes