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Bettany Mary Hughes (born May 1967) is an English historian, author, and broadcaster, specialising in classical history. Her published books cover classical antiquity and myth, and the history of Istanbul. She is active in efforts to encourage the teaching of the classics in UK state schools. Hughes was appointed OBE in 2019. Early life and education Hughes grew up in West London. She is the daughter of actors Peter and Erica Hughes, and the sister of the cricketer and journalist Simon Hughes. She was educated at Notting Hill and Ealing High School in Ealing, and at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she graduated with a degree in ancient and modern history. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of York. Career She is a visiting research fellow at King's College London, formerly a tutor for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, and an honorary fellow at Cardiff University. Hughes has written and presented many documentary films and series on both ancient and modern subjects. In 2009, she was awarded the Naomi Sargant Special Award for excellence in educational broadcasting, and in 2012 she was awarded the Norton Medlicott Award for services to history by the Historical Association, of which she is an honorary fellow. In 2010, she gave the Hellenic Institute's Tenth Annual lecture "Ta Erotika: The Things of Love"; in 2011, Hughes gave the Royal Television Society's Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture, in which she argued that history on television is thriving and enjoying a new golden age. In 2011, she chaired the Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by women. Hughes is a patron of The Iris Project, a charity that promotes the teaching of Latin and Greek in UK state schools. She is an honorary patron of Classics For All, a national campaign to get classical languages and the study of ancient civilisations back into state schools. She is an advisor to the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation which aims to foster large-scale collaborative projects between East and West. In 2014, she was made a Distinguished Friend of the University of Oxford. Hughes is a Vice President of the National Churches Trust. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 3 March 2017. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to history. Personal life Hughes is married to Adrian Evans, events director and producer, who was pageant master for the Diamond and Platinum Jubilees; the couple have two daughters Sorrel and May. Hughes is a vegetarian. In 2016, she delivered the British Humanist Association's annual Voltaire Lecture. Recognition She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013. Books Hughes has written five books: Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore (2005) The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (2010) Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (2017) Venus and Aphrodite (2019) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (2024) The Hemlock Cup was included in The New York Times Bestseller List. It was chosen as Book of the Year by The Daily Telegraph, and it was featured as a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. It was shortlisted for a Writer's Guild Award. Istanbul was reviewed by The New York Review of Books and was shortlisted for the Runciman Award in 2018. Venus and Aphrodite was shortlisted in 2021 for the Runciman Award. Other writings "Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore" – European Cultural Centre of Delphi, XIII International Meeting On Ancient Drama 2007, The Women in Ancient Drama, Symposium Proceedings "'Terrible, Excruciating, Wrong-Headed And Ineffectual': The Perils and Pleasures of Presenting Antiquity to a Television Audience" – Dunstan Lowe, Kim Shahabudin (ed.), Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1443801201 Credits Television programmes References External links Quotations related to Bettany Hughes at Wikiquote Bettany Hughes Official Web site. Discover the Mary Hughes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mary Hughes books.
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Resort to Murder
Mary Ellen HughesBaltimore high school math teacher, Maggie Olenski, feels burned out, and a resort in the mountains of western Maryland seems like the perfect getaway spot until she stumbles on t...
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The First Wife
Muna ShehadiAt the heart of a great love lies a devastating secret . . . Fans of Lucinda Riley, Santa Montefiore and Louise Douglas will be gripped by Muna Shehadi's stunning new novel of twis...
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The Concubine of Shanghai
Hong YingChina, 1907. Sixteenyearold orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her fro...
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New Poems Book Two
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski was one of America's bestknown writers abnd one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poem...
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The Winter Sister
Muna Shehadi'The story telling in this book is right up there with Nora Roberts, who is an expert at drawing you into a story' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review'To say I loved reading this book would be...
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Mysterious Scotland
Michael BalfourMysterious Scotland presents an extraordinary array of the weird and wonderful heritage of the country. Michael Balfour examines strange stories from the moors, forests, rivers, ho...
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Good Wives
Louisa May AlcottWhen "Little Women" came to its last chapter Meg was engaged and the other three March girls, Beth, Jo and Amy, were at the threshold of youngwomanhood. "Good Wives" opens three ye...
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The Bite of Silence
Mary HughesTimes Square. New Year’s Eve. This year, it’s a Countdown to Death.Twyla Tafel has uncovered an insane plot to unleash vampires on the unsuspecting revelers. She’s armed only with ...
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License to Dill
Mary Ellen HughesFrom bestselling author, Mary Ellen Hughes, comes a second, delicious Pickled and Preserved Mystery:Piper Lamb knows how to make fruits and vegetables keep for months. Unfortunatel...
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Old Mars
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Michael Moorcock, Joe R. Lansdale & James S. A. CoreyFifteen allnew stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multipleaward winning editor Gardner Dozois Burroughs’s A Pr...
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The Pickled Piper
Mary Ellen HughesAfter a romance turns sour, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverda...
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Tortured Artists
Christopher Zara & Robbie LeeGreat art comes from great pain.Or that's the impression left by these haunting profiles. Pieced together, they form a revealing mosaic of the creative mind. It's like viewing an e...
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A Fatal Collection
Mary Ellen HughesWhen Callie Reed comes to Keepsake Cove to reconnect with her aunt, Melodie, she is charmed by both the town of quaint collectible shops and by her aunt's fairy tale cottage. But M...
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The Liverpool Nightingales
Kate EasthamA heartwarming and moving tale of courage and friendship set in Victorian Liverpool, for fans of Call the Midwife, Daisy Styles and Nadine Dorries. 'Deftly written and moving' Woma...
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The Domesday Quest
Michael WoodIn 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the No...
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A Taste of Death
Mary Ellen HughesCedar Hill sounds like the perfect place for Maggie to write her math puzzle booka small New Hampshire town whose biggest problem should be keeping roads to the adjacent ski slopes...
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Beauty Bites
Mary HughesWhen top Minneapolis exec Ric Holiday says refuses to design an ad campaign for Meiers Corners, Dr. Synnove Byornsson is sent to plead the city’s case.On the way to Holiday’s penth...
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Passion Bites
Mary HughesLuke Steel hasn't felt passion since his wife died in a brutal attack three hundred years ago and he felt powerless to save her. But when he ends up in an emergency room, all of th...
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Venus and Aphrodite
Bettany Hughes'Lively' THE TIMES'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThrough ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries a...
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Wreath of Deception
Mary Ellen HughesIt's opening day at Jo's Craft Corner, and Jo is wired more tightly than the wreath on her store's front door. The entertainment she's hired, Cuddles the Clown, is little help, gru...
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How Lovely the Ruins
Annie Chagnot & Emi IkkandaThis wideranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, and the courage to persevere.In times of personal hardship or collective anxiety, ...
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The Erotic Poems
Ovid & Peter GreenThis collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity...
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The History of Alexander
Quintus Curtius Rufus & John YardleyAlexander the Great (356323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet al...
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Biting Nixie
Mary HughesPunk musician Nixie Schmeling is a hundred pounds of Attitude in a city full of Normal. She’s especially full of attitude after she’s volunteered to run Meiers Corner’s inaugural f...
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How to Work Without Losing Your Mind
Cate Sevilla'Genuinely empowering' Daisy Buchanan'An invaluable guide to surviving professional life' Viv Groskop'Comforting during these uncertain times' Yomi AdegokeAwardwinning journalist a...
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Ice Queen
Suzanne BlaylockDrawn together by an accident of time and circumstance, a disparate group of women all hide behind masks of cool deception, but when their paths cross, the ice soon melts in a furn...
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Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin & Henry HardyFew, if any, Englishlanguage critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that R...
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A Local Habitation
Richard HoggartRichard Hoggart's book, The Uses of Literary, established his reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of English workingclass life. In this vivid first volume o...
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Gaskell & Elisabeth JayElizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic autho...
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Paper-Thin Alibi
Mary Ellen HughesWith her craft shop business going well, owner Jo McAllister takes off for the weekend, having snagged a spot at the prestigious Michicomi Craft Festival to show her wares. Jo’s ex...
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A Curio Killing
Mary Ellen HughesCallie Reed is looking forward to her first Keepsake Cove spring festival. But her excitement dims considerably when she learns that her exboyfriend, Hank, will be performing with ...
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The Summer Sister
Muna Shehadi'A wonderful read with evocative descriptions and enough family secrets to create a gripping journey of discovery' Woman'One of those books that makes you cancel everything so you ...
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A Vintage Death
Mary Ellen HughesNew owner of a music box shop, Callie Reed, pitches in on the decorations for a special Halloweenthemed book signing at Keepsake Cove, a quaint town of collectible shops on Marylan...
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The Spring Sister
Muna Shehadi'The author's writing style is similar to that of Santa Montefiore whom I love, so this book really pulled me in' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader reviewWhat happens when you discover that your gl...
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Peter Abelard & Betty RadiceThe story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless a...
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String of Lies
Mary Ellen HughesParker Holt has started gobbling up properties housing small businesses in town, and Jo worries that her Craft Corner shop will be next. But when she arrives at Holt's home to lear...
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The Mersey Sound
Adrian Henri, Brian Patten & Roger McGough'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each c...
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Scene of the Brine
Mary Ellen HughesThe national bestselling author of The Pickled Piper and License to Dill returns with a dilly of a pickle.Business is booming at Piper’s Picklings in Cloverdale, New York. But not ...
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
Nat SegaloffThe author of The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear, brings us another sensational Hollywood tellall celebrating the 40th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s legendary 1983 gangster fi...
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The Mad Emperor
Harry SidebottomWhat happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' Da...
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The Woman on the Train
Mary Ellen HughesMartin’s life was much less interesting than the crime fiction he regularly read, until he decided to write his own mystery, working on the story during his daily commute and writi...
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Ramesses
Joyce TyldesleyEveryone has heard of Ramesses the Great but what is the truth behind the legend? Joyce Tyldesley's lively book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II w...
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Electra and Other Plays
Sophocles & David RaeburnSophocles’ innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. Electra portrays the grief of a...
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Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11
Maxim JakubowskiThis superb annual anthology of the year’s most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in une...
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The Girl With No Name
Reine AndrieuHeartbreaking. Gripping. Terribly captivating.'Read it in one sitting!' Madeleine, Amazon reviewerShe may not remember her name,but her body knows.1940. When a French family is fo...
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In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great
Michael WoodMichael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements...
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Bite My Fire
Mary HughesElena O’Rourke packs a gun and an attitude. The gun, because she’s a cop. The attitude? Let’s just say her love life has been sorely lacking. But she’ll be damned if apartment mana...