There Was an Egyptian in Your School

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her specialty is ancient and medieval history and culture.

A Scholar at Oxford University, she has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht, Manchester, and Swansea. She is a Tutor for Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, a Research Fellow of King’s College London, and recently joined the New College of the Humanities as Professor of History.

She has written and presented over 50 TV and radio documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Discovery, PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC World, and ITV and is Co-Founder and Creative Director at Sandstone Global Productions. Her programs have now been seen by over 250 million worldwide and include the hit Channel 4 TV series Treasures of the World.

She has been honored with numerous awards, including Europe’s Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to history. Bettany is also an honorary, founding patron of Classics For All, a national campaign to get classical languages and the study of classical civilizations back into state schools. She was named one of the BBC’s 100 Global Women, was asked to launch the UK’s Inspiring Women mentoring scheme, and in 2017, she was chosen as one of London’s 20 most influential cultural people by the Evening Standard in their 1000 awards.

She sat on the Innovation Committee of NESTA and has been an advisor to the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization. Bettany has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, and The Sunday Times, and chaired the Man Booker panel. She judges for BAFTA, the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, and the Royal Television Society, amongst others.

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