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Telegraph, May 11, 2012
...Park's summer season, is the creation of the renowned Ways With Words festival team. Historian and writer Bettany Hughes, who lives near the pretty Kensington borough park, and who will be talking about Socrates, said: Canopies of trees, fine words,...
The Independent, April 28, 2012
...appear on the nation's tellies talking about Empire and Elizabeth II? Or will the Divine Women presenter Bettany Hughes, another speaker, punch him on his perfectly-formed nose? Can a war chariot fit through the gates of the park, we wonder? Hell hath no...
Guardian.co.uk, April 20, 2012
...hotsy-totsiness as do other telegeneic academics (physicists Brian Cox and Helen Czerski , or Beard's friend, fellow classicist Bettany Hughes ), but because of something more unusual. She's an anti-autocutie, refreshingly ungussied when rummaging among...
This is Oxfordshire, April 3, 2012
...have have bumped into Tony Benn, Sandy Gall, Alvin Hall, Robert Harris, Jodi Picoult, Philip Pullman, PD James, Bettany Hughes, Anne Tyler, Kim Newman, Kathy Lette, Alex James (oops, I’m sorry, he had somewhere better to go...) and none other than the...
Telegraph, March 8, 2012
...to reading Georgina Harding and Leah Hager Cohen, and this will press me towards them sooner. Last year, Bettany Hughes, one of the prize's eminent judges, was quoted as saying that she looked forward to the day when the Orange would be unnecessary....
Telegraph, March 8, 2012
...to reading Georgina Harding and Leah Hager Cohen, and this will press me towards them sooner. Last year, Bettany Hughes, one of the prize's eminent judges, was quoted as saying that she looked forward to the day when the Orange would be unnecessary....
New Zealand Herald, February 21, 2012
...understand how my brain works. The book I'd like to read next is ... The Hemlock Cup by Bettany Hughes. It's a biography of Socrates. The back of the book said that we think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. I want to...
New Zealand Herald, February 21, 2012
...understand how my brain works. The book I'd like to read next is ... The Hemlock Cup by Bettany Hughes. It's a biography of Socrates. The back of the book said that we think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. I want to...
Irish Times, February 10, 2012
...Trombley's perfectly adequate entries on Socrates and Plato, for example, pale into insignificance when compared with, say, Bettany Hughes's magnificent The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life . Admittedly Hughes's book is a...
Enhance TV, February 1, 2012
...for civilisation and knowledge meet its classical demise? Featuring stunning visualisations from the major movie Agora, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes looks at Alexandria past and present, unearthing archaeological gems and following in the footsteps...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, October 11, 2011
...Jewish Diaspora and indeed these strange collectibles, the netsuke. The book has been widely acclaimed and indeed Bettany Hughes of the Daily Telegraph says ‘The most brilliant book I’ve read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains...
rogueclassicism, October 2, 2011
...October 2, 2011 #classicalbook ~ The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life, By Bettany Hughes October 2, 2011 #classicalbook ~ The Almost-Lost Poem That Changed the World October 1, 2011 #classicalbook ~ It's Not All Greek to...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, June 12, 2011
...by Serbian-American Téa Obreht is a powerful account of the Balkan war, a novel acclaimed by prize chair Bettany Hughes as the work of "a truly exciting new talent". Among the onlookers, Tim Waterstone was talking up the appointment of James Daunt to...
TALLAWAH: Jamaican Culture, Music, Theatre & Film , June 10, 2011
...grandfather told her as a child. It was published earlier this year. Chairman of the judging panel, historian Bettany Hughes, praised Obreht ( born in the former Yugoslavia but now lives in the United States) as "a truly exciting new talent." Previous...
