| Bettany Hughes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 (age 43–44) |
| Education | Notting Hill & Ealing High School |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
| Occupation | broadcaster and writer |
| Known for | Television history; radio broadcasting |
| Spouse | Adrian Evans |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Peter Hughes, Erica Hughes |
| Relatives | Simon Hughes (brother) |
| Website | |
| http://www.bettanyhughes.co.uk/ | |
Bettany Hughes (born 1968) is an English academic historian, author and broadcaster.
Hughes' father is the actor Peter Hughes and her brother is the cricketer and journalist Simon Hughes. Hughes was educated at the private Notting Hill & Ealing High School, in Ealing and won a scholarship to read Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford where she received an upper second degree.
She has taught at Bristol, Manchester, Oxford and Cambridge universities and is a currently a Research Fellow of King's College London and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. Her first book Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore has now been translated into ten languages. Her second book The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life was Book of The Week on BBC Radio 4. The Hemlock Cup has been extremely enthusiastically reviewed and was chosen as Book of the Year in a wide range of publications for 2010. In 2010 Hughes was awarded the Naomi Sargent Prize for Broadcast Excellence and was given a Special Award for services to Hellenic Culture and Heritage. She has written and presented documentary films and series for National Geographic, BBC, Discovery, PBS, The History Channel and Channel 4. Her television programmes have now been seen by over 100 million worldwide.
In 2010 she gave the Hellenic Institute's Tenth Annual lecture 'TA EROTIKA: THE THINGS OF LOVE. She was also asked to chair the 2011 Orange prize for Fiction,[1] the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. In 2012 Bettany will be hosting the 'Real Olympics in London' and curating an Olympiad Exhibition at the British Library that explores the theme of 'Idea'.
She is a long-standing patron and supporter of educational and campaigning charity The Iris Project, which has been promoting and teaching Latin and Greek in state schools since 2006.[2] She is also an honorary patron of Classics For All, a national campaign to get classical languages and the study of classical civilisations back into state schools in the UK launched in 2010. She is also an advisor to the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation which fosters large-scale collaborative projects between East and West.
Her husband is Adrian Evans, the producer of Archaos in the UK and the director of the South Bank Thames Festival. The couple have two children.
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